...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...

... be sustained, they can be employed in a meaningful way to society reducing inter alia loneliness and as a bonus their children become happier. In the context of our (more realistic) setting in developed democratic countries, gerontocracy means that the voting power of the older generation can...