{"id":4030,"date":"2010-05-18T22:22:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T11:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2010-05-18T22:22:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T11:22:52","slug":"is-retirement-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/05\/18\/is-retirement-history\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Is retirement history?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A research paper, ‘Is retirement history?’<\/em>\u00a0argues that an ageing Australia demands a comprehensive strategy based on\u00a0‘active’ social participation rather than on a materialistic\u00a0‘productive’ participation. The article responds to<\/p>\n

the federal government\u2019s recent (February)\u00a0announcement of a Productive Ageing Package<\/strong><\/a> of policies targeting the employability older workers adds to its own and Howard\/Costello government initiatives aimed at pushing out the date of retirement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The research paper is comprehensive and\u00a0makes some excellent points. By way of example,\u00a0the need to understand ageing as a\u00a0stage of life with its own dignity\u00a0rather than a time of reduced\u00a0‘productive’ contribution and increased economic dependency on society. Therefore:<\/p>\n

What is required … is a complete strategy for our ageing society, not a piecemeal approach. In this regard a strategy for \u201cactive\u201d ageing should be favoured. This would address a much wider range of issues concerning social participation in later life. \u201cProductive\u201d has as its starting point the notion that too many older people are economically dependent on society, whereas the \u201cactive\u201d approach recognises the important contribution older people potentially can and do make in different spheres.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ageing is an important topic that like euthanasia goes to the heart of human well-being, of what\u00a0it is to be human. In Christian understanding human beings are of worth and worthy of dignity because each and every person is created\u00a0in the image of God. Although this research work is not explicitly ‘Christian’, it highlights the danger of reducing human beings, including ageing ones(!), to ‘productive’ units.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well worth\u00a0a measured read over a good cuppa’.<\/p>\n

‘Is retirement history?’<\/a> \u00a0by\u00a0<\/strong>Philip Taylor, Elizabeth Brooke, Erin Watson and Tia di Biase,\u00a0researchers in the Business, Work and Ageing Centre for Research<\/a>, Swinburne University of Technology. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A research paper, ‘Is retirement history?’\u00a0argues that an ageing Australia demands a comprehensive strategy based on\u00a0‘active’ social participation rather than on a materialistic\u00a0‘productive’ participation. The article responds to the federal government\u2019s recent (February)\u00a0announcement of a Productive Ageing Package of policies … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4038,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions\/4038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}