Planning and Policies
Asynchronous Session
Developing an Age-friendly Ecosystem: A Case Study from Minnesota’s Multi Sector Blueprint on Aging
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Farah Baig, Rajean Moone
As age demographics continue to shift, age-friendly policy initiatives at the global, national, state, and local levels are rapidly evolving. These emerging age-friendly initiatives underscore a changing perception of aging and older adulthood. Many states, communities, academic institutions, health systems, and other organizations are embracing the demographic shift and leveraging age-friendly frameworks that seek to improve later life experiences. However, there is limited scholarly work that explores contextualized age-friendly policy development. Using qualitative case study and historical methods, this study provides an overview of various age-friendly frameworks and outlines work in the State of Minnesota where intersections of the various frameworks are coalescing in an age-friendly ecosystem. Minnesota, rather than being a ‘best practices’ exemplar, serves as a model of an evolving system, led by the Age-friendly Minnesota Council in partnership with organizations such as the Minnesota Board on Aging and the Minnesota Department of Human Services, that are developing impactful policies to address the needs of a growing heterogeneous older adult population. The nuances and realities found within the Minnesota context underscore the need to develop fluid age-friendly ecosystems that can adapt to the uniqueness and complexity found in each state, region, or community. Going forward, it will be critical for Minnesota to evaluate their programs to determine their long-term impact on the entire population — including today’s older adults as well as future older Minnesotans.
Intragenerational Labour Mobility and Well-being in Later Life
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Ellam Kulati
Labour market links to well-being have relied on cross-sectional or short-horizon longitudinal evidence discounting the dynamism of individual labour market involvement, and its accumulated welfare effects. This is despite disruptions to labour market experiences comprising major life events that substantially vary within and across countries, transversing industries and ascriptive socio-economic criteria. This study uses multiple regression modelling and Optimal Matching Analysis (OMA) of retrospective life histories of respondents aged 50 years or older, from wave 3 and 7 of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)— SHARELIFE— to empirically investigate the ‘utility’ effects of different life-cycle labour market trajectories. Obtained results are significant for labour market policies and regulations similar to the dismissal restrictions in the Dutch labour market.
