...Barbara Gösenbauer Purpose The comment addresses the idea of substituting professional elder care with informal care provided by early retirees to save economic costs. Design/methodology/approach The comment arose from reading “How to handle gerontocracy”, scientific research and critical...

...Marcel Canoy; Yvonne Krabbe; Xander Koolman Yvonne Krabbe can be contacted at: y.j.f.m.alkemade@vu.nl All western societies suffer from gerontocracy. The term points at a relatively broad phenomenon. Current old generations are richer than ever, increase in electoral weight every year, pay...