{"id":66832,"date":"2025-07-18T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=66832"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:21:07","slug":"what-the-old-and-the-young-can-give-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/what-the-old-and-the-young-can-give-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Old and the Young Can Give Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"Changes in the demographics of Central Europe are placing a significant strain on society.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe first wave of people born between 1950 and 1972 are now retiring or have already done so. Not all of them are in good health, which means the costs of caring for the older generation are already rising enormously. In Germany, for example, the costs have nearly doubled from \u20ac42.43 billion to \u20ac82.40 billion between 2013 and 2023. We can estimate this will peak in 2026, when the 1951 cohort reaches the age of 75 and illnesses become more prevalent. As uncertain as predictions are, it is certain that healthcare costs will rise.\n\n\n\nOne Injustice Is Enough\n\n\n\nHow will we support this financially? The real question underlying this is how the elderly will relate to the younger generations. Doe<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes in the demographics of Central Europe are placing a significant strain on society. The first wave of people born between 1950 and 1972 are now retiring or have already done so. Not all of them are in good health, which means the costs of caring for the older generation are already rising enormously. In Germany, for example, the costs have nearly doubled from \u20ac42.43 billion to \u20ac82.40 billion between 2013 and 2023. We can estimate this will peak in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20974,"featured_media":66541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9115,8838,8788],"tags":[11673,11674,8824],"class_list":["post-66832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consciousness","category-time-issues","category-essay-en","tag-ausgabe-25-26-2025-en","tag-english-issue-29-30-2025","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20974"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}