The growth in the number of older people over the coming decades and the financial and economic consequences this will have, including for the affordability of state pensions and care for the elderly, are a cause of concern for policymakers. These changes are referred to collectively as "population ageing." Their importance prompted the government to set out its vision on policy on ageing and the elderly, including its plan to monitor the results of policy on the elderly. This publication is the first result of that plan. It presents a statistical picture of the trend in population ageing in the Netherlands in a number of policy domains, namely, employment, income, housing, health, and care.
Cretien van Campen is a researcher in the social science and the fine arts. He is the founder of Synesthetics Netherlands and is affiliated with the Netherlands Institute for Social Research. He is best known for his work on synesthesia in art, including historical reviews of how artists have used synesthetic perceptions to produce art, and studies of perceived quality of life, in particular of how people with health problems perceive their living conditions in the context of health and social care services.