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Positive Aging and PrecarityPreparing for Old Age

Positive Aging and Precarity: Preparing for Old Age [This chapter focuses on the decisions and actions that precarious and financially secure middle-aged Germans take in preparation for old age. The first part of the chapter discusses the dilemma of preparing for old age in precarious times. Next, the chapter examines the strategies applied by precarious workers when preparing for old age. These strategies include short-term thinking, training positive thinking, investing in healthHealth, fostering work-related skills, and developing social networks. HealthHealth, optimismOptimism, work and family structures represent the most relevant resources for precarious workers. However, barriers towards reaching a positive old age are numerous and comprise a feeling of lacking control, high expenses related to a healthy lifestyle, and lacking resources from the State. By contrast, financially secure individuals place emphasis on planningPlanning their old age. Among their preparatory strategies feature: training the body and mind to keep fit for later years, securing monetary assets to have financial independence in old age, leaving the big city and social activism to ensure meaning for old age. For financially secure persons, resources for old ageResources for old age include healthHealth, money, or real estate and even retirement itself because it provides a structure for their lives. All in all, planningPlanning old age is considered a manageable matter by financially secure individuals.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Positive Aging and PrecarityPreparing for Old Age

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-14254-4
Pages
107 –125
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-14255-1_7
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Abstract

[This chapter focuses on the decisions and actions that precarious and financially secure middle-aged Germans take in preparation for old age. The first part of the chapter discusses the dilemma of preparing for old age in precarious times. Next, the chapter examines the strategies applied by precarious workers when preparing for old age. These strategies include short-term thinking, training positive thinking, investing in healthHealth, fostering work-related skills, and developing social networks. HealthHealth, optimismOptimism, work and family structures represent the most relevant resources for precarious workers. However, barriers towards reaching a positive old age are numerous and comprise a feeling of lacking control, high expenses related to a healthy lifestyle, and lacking resources from the State. By contrast, financially secure individuals place emphasis on planningPlanning their old age. Among their preparatory strategies feature: training the body and mind to keep fit for later years, securing monetary assets to have financial independence in old age, leaving the big city and social activism to ensure meaning for old age. For financially secure persons, resources for old ageResources for old age include healthHealth, money, or real estate and even retirement itself because it provides a structure for their lives. All in all, planningPlanning old age is considered a manageable matter by financially secure individuals.]

Published: May 11, 2019

Keywords: Aging; Precarity; Preparations for old age; Planning; Health; Social resources; Optimism

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