COMING SOON
The study represents an update and upgrade of the previous SociAll one published in 2021 “Revisiting EU social indicators: a needs-driven approach from a workers’ perspective”. It provided comments on the ‘version 0’ of the Monitoring framework to assess the implementation of the Recommendation on access to social protection for workers and the self-employed, elaborated by the European Commission and endorsed by the Council’s Social Protection Committee. The 2021 edition launched a trade union reflection on how existing indicators can be complemented or refined, in order to be more representative and functional to the improvement of pensions in Europe in an “ageing in dignity” perspective.
The narrative of “ageing in dignity”, rebalancing the approach to ageing as source of “costs” is built around the needs- based approach to old-age rights as per the EPSR, namely adequate pensions that and high-quality and accessible health and long-term care for all.
Following the partial update of the monitoring framework occurred in 2021 and 2022, the new study further consolidates the overarching approach to the monitoring of “old age rights”, encompassing not only pension coverage, adequacy and effectiveness, but also the dimensions of healthcare and long-term care that have a huge relevance for ageing in dignity.
The new study also includes a qualitative assessment of the monitoring framework, as well as a quantitative assessment of the current and future level of social protection in old age, considering pensions, health care and long-term care.