Europe's population is rapidly ageing what challenges are we going to face with our pension system collapse will solidarity between the young and the old break down when life expectancy drop again the key to meet these manifold challenges is knowledge share the survey of health aging and retirements in Europe is an international survey designed to deliver this knowledge in 2004 share started interviewing people of the generation 50 plus since then the same people have been interviewed every two years about their economic social and health situation shares scientific potential lies in the extensive data gathered micro data
that is cross-national comparable over time and multidisciplinary sher operates in 27 European countries and Israel strictly harmonized questionnaires guarantee cross national comparability share is also embedded in a global network of sister studies share interviews the same people as long as possible to observe the aging process over time thousands of researchers around the globe use the anonymized data for their research among many other results research with shared data has revealed the following youth unemployment leaves traces in old age lifestyle influences the onset of dementia employees retire later if they like their workplace share provides data not
only for scientific research but also with social impact share findings enable policymakers to base difficult decisions on evidence rather than feelings on a national European and global level in Estonia share data has improved access to long-term care services the European Commission uses share to improve social protection for people in precarious employment when they get old as the demographic change will unfold and more data will be collected the knowledge provided by share will be even more powerful in the future [Music]
