Ageing and its multiple challenges
The ageing of the population results in part from the increased longevity of individuals, gained through health, medical and social progress. This progress has profoundly redesigned the conditions of individual ageing. Demographic ageing also results from changing population age structures, with new balances between the top and bottom of the age pyramid, which are specific to each country, with increasing life expectancy.
These trends have led to massive transformations in the relationship between generations and a modification of the "stages" of the life cycle: education, intergenerational dependency, transition to adulthood, entering into couple and parenthood life, family and work life, retirement and old ages . It is by considering all of these stages and how they articulate that we can grasp the issue of old ages , which is at the forefront of multiple challenges:
- a quality of life and health challenge,
- a social challenge
- a political challenge
The research on ageing
As longevity and ageing are inherently plural processes, they constitute a particularly fertile field of research in the humanities and social sciences. However, the field is also characterised by a lack of visibility and interdisciplinarity.
Created in 2014 for four years, the Research group "Longévité et vieillissements" was a multi-organisation coordination structure that brought together more than 300 researchers in 29 teams (in anthropology, demography, law, economics, epidemiology, geography, history, psychology, public health, sociology), around scientific meetings (thematic, methodological, data), an annual workshop dedicated to European calls for projects, a directory of members, a website and a newsletter.
A scientific interest group for of the research community
In order to pursue these activities within an appropriate framework, the CNRS, Inserm, Ined, Cnav, CNSA, Drees, EPHE, Université Paris Dauphine and Université de Lorraine created the GIS Institut de la longévité, des vieillesses et du vieillissement in 2018.
The ILVV aims to federate scientific skills and promote interdisciplinary cooperation: scientific cooperation and cooperation between research, institutions and policymakers in charge of public policies and social protection.
Source : Site de l’Ined - données ONU 2015