Active Ageing Policy and Pension Reforms: Russian and International Experience: Tenth Academic Workshop

On February 25, 2020, the Institute for Social Policy at HSE University held its 10th academic workshop devoted to Asian Long-Term Care Systems: Cases of China and Japan. This workshop being part of the series of events on Active Ageing Policy and Pension Reforms: Russian and International Experience was organized in cooperation with the World Bank and with the support of the Russian National Association of social service providers (NASO).

The workshop focused on serious challenges of rapid population ageing due to extremely low fertility and rising life expectancy that developed and rapidly developing countries in North-East Asia are facing. Thus, Japan is the country with the highest life expectancy in the world and the oldest population structure; and China’s population ageing rate is among the highest in the world. Moreover, simultaneously with demographic processes that change the balance between generations, traditional family ties are weakening. The workshop tried to understand how the issue of long-term care, the demand for which grows with increasing life expectancy is being addressed in these conditions; how Asian societies are addressing the issue of co-funding of care by families and the State; what new forms of care, in addition to traditional kinship care, are emerging in these countries. 
More information is available here.