Stop excluding ‘the elderly’!
There will be more and more old people in Germany, while the number of people in gainful employment, who finance the pensions, is falling. The pension model is faltering. In the confrontation with the younger generations, the baby boomers are coming into focus, and it is quickly said: the old people cost too much, they consume too much, they have destroyed the climate! Do they still have a place in society at all? Reimer Gronemeyer dissects an often-ignored phenomenon and shows that we simply cannot afford to reject older people and thus relegate them to the sidelines of society. After all, the experiences of older people are more important today than ever before.
