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Working and ageing
2 Guidance and counselling for mature learners

In the next decades, Europeʼs growth and prosperity will increasingly
depend on the ability to capitalise on the skills and experience of ageing
people. Guidance and counselling is crucial for longer and more satisfying
careers by supporting ageing people in terms of learning, career development
and employability. This publication concludes that successful approaches to
guidance and counselling encompass a lifecycle perspective, are responsive
and comprehensive and are supported by all stakeholders involved.
I trust this publication can help policy-makers make the case for age-aware
guidance and counselling and I am convinced it can be a starting point for
more discussion and debate on active ageing among policy-makers,
practitioners and researchers at EU level and in Member States.

Christian F. Lettmayr
Acting Director