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Working and ageing
6 Guidance and counselling for mature learners

List of tables and figures

Tables

2.1. Degree to which employers think the following developments
will affect recruiting problems on the labour market in their
own organisations (%) 31
2.2. Expected consequences of an ageing staff (%) 32
2.3. Differences in judgements of employers on functioning
of older (50 years and older) and young (35 years or younger)
workers (%) 33
2.4. Degree to which employers implemented measures or
were considering implementing measures aimed at retaining
older personnel (%) 35
2.5. Opinions of employers on the timing of retirement (%) 36
2.6. Measures taken or considered by organisations in response
to personnel shortages (%) 37
3.1. Average index points increase of the potential working
population in the age group 55-64 years to the total potential
working population for 2008-30 45
5.1. Summary of studies examining age-related memory decline
in healthy adults 94
7.1. A new model of the life course 128
7.2. Participation and resources across the four life stages 129
8.1. Snapshot of Eurostat information on the ageing population 149
8.2. Policy binary 160
9.1. Age ranges of older workers in the sample by country
(expressed as percentage of total sample) 171
9.2. How older workers acquired knowledge and skills to perform
in current or last job (multiple answers possible) 172
9.3. Matching of skills and duties in current or last job 172
9.4. Use of past work experience in current or last job 173
9.5. Use of formal qualifications in current or last job 173
11.1. Types of system, background and target population 211
12.1. Main activity indicators of new opportunities centres,
between 2006 and 2010 235
14.1. Current or recent participation in learning across
the four life stages, 2008 268