01/10/2026
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On , we highlight the importance of adapting social protection systems to demographic change.
Living longer is a major achievement. But longer and more diverse lives also bring changing needs for income security, health care, care and support, while working lives are evolving too.
Social protection systems need to keep pace. This requires that pension schemes effectively prevent poverty and ensure income security in old age while being sustainably and equitably financed, and that effective access to quality long-term care is available for those who need it.
It also means greater emphasis on supporting decent employment throughout people’s working lives, ensuring adequate social protection for workers in all types of employment, facilitating work-family balance, and promoting gender equality in the world of work and in social protection. At the same time, it requires ensuring social security for care workers, as an important dimension of decent work.
Building social protection systems that respond to longer and more diverse lives is key to ensuring adequate protection throughout the life course including in old age.
