Forum 1
Healthy Ageing
Wednesday 06 October 2010 15:30-18:30

Europe's population is ageing. What can we as individuals, communities, society and employers do to keep the population healthy, active and productive? What are the responses of health systems and politicians to the challenge of demographic change? 

Chair: KN Kuo, Director, National Health Research Institute, Taiwan
Co-Chair: M McKee, Research Director, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Rapporteur: R Taylor, Senior Researcher, International Longevity Centre, UK 


SESSION I - Demographic change and the future of health:
Foundations and key challenges 

Demographic change and health – a challenge for European societies
B Marin, Executive Director, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Austria

The life course perspective of ageing
J Beard, Director, Life Course and Ageing Programme, WHO Geneva, Switzerland (tbc)

Demographic change and health – what we can learn from Asia
CL Yaung, Minister of Health Taiwan

Keeping the ageing workforce healthy and productive
W Widuckel, Member of the Executive Board AUDI AG, Germany 

Panel discussion
ST Chiou, Director-General, Bureau of Health Promotion, Taiwan
G Fischer, Acting Director and Head of Unit ‘Social Inclusion’, DG Employment, European Commission
M Bassett, Group Director Public Policy, BUPA, UK
D Jarré, Vice-President, European Social Platform, Belgium
W Widuckel, Member of the Executive Board AUDI AG, Germany 

Facilitated by M McKee, Professor for European Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 

Hosted by the Ministry of Health, Taiwan