People need opportunities to make a midlife review 回顾中年 to adjust to the later stages of employed life, and to plan for the transition 过渡 to retirement, which may now happen unpredictably at any point from 50 to over 90.
And there should be more money available to support people in establishing a sense of identity and finding constructive roles for the third age, the 20 or more years they will spend in healthy retired life.
The same goes for the expanding fourth age when people need to maintain identity, health, social engagement and wellbeing during the final stages of life. In an era of greater mobility there should be more help for people to establish themselves in new relationships and places.
With the downturn in the economy 经济下滑 affecting the value of all types of pensioners, people need to continue learning. Some need to maintain skills to earn and support dependents 保持能力去赚钱和帮助需要依靠的人. Others can do voluntary work more effectively if they can retain and update their skills and knowledge保持或更新技能和知识 .
Even if it is right for the bulk of public大众 funding to be spent in this way, government needs to consider how the other kinds of learning need are to be met 达到要求, and to ask whether 1% of the public education budget is a proper share 合适的比例 to tackle the learning needs of a third of the population 指老年人群体.
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