Impact of Inequality on the Future Elderly: Policy Tools and Actions

To address the need for better evidence, for over a decade the Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation at the USC Schaeffer Center has been researching the determinants of health and health spending among older populations; developing models to understand the consequences of social policy, social forces, and biomedicine for health, health spending, and health care delivery; and translating these findings for policy makers who influence ageing policy.

In 2017, the OECD released Preventing Ageing Unequally – a report that examines how the two global megatrends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations. The OECD partnered with the Roybal Center and the Centre for Economic and International Studies, University of Rome Tor Vergata to develop a pilot model (Global FEM) that projects the health and economic circumstances of population cohorts in Belgium, Italy and the US to assess how current income inequalities during the working age could pass into inequalities at older ages and the impact of inequality in life-expectancy trends on social benefits.

Results of this collaboration will be discussed on Day 1 in the context of policies for better and more equal health and economic outcomes in the retirement years. Day 2 will be for researchers and country representatives interested in building a country-level Future Elderly Model.

Workshop organised by the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, CEIS Tor Vergata and the Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development (OECD).