EXTEND Social inequalities in extending working lives of an ageing workforce is an international project (running from 2016 to 2018) researching social inequalities in chances and constraints to extend working life. It is funded in the framework of the Joint Programming Initiative „More Years, Better Lives”.
EXTEND has three main research aims:

• EXTEND researches how reforms aimed at extending working lives might increase social inequality in the transition from work to retirement and also in late career phase.
• EXTEND focuses not only on the societal macro level but explicitly looks into a sector (the social services sector) where the goal of longer working lives is confronted with particular barriers which disproportionately affect health- and care professionals.
• EXTEND is ‘solution driven’; the project is looking for innovative solutions on different levels, including pension and retirement policies, improving the employability of an ageing workforce  and measures for healthy ageing in work.

To achieve these ambitious goals the researchers in EXTEND working in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Finland, Denmark and Germany will evaluate recent policy reforms aimed at extending working lives with a special focus on the linking of official retirement ages to life expectancy. They will investigate the relationship of retirement timing and health and vice versa. At the workplace level they will explore the importance of working conditions with a focus on the reconciliation of care and work.

Download EXTEND Flyer
Download EXTEND Newsletter 1
Download EXTEND Newsletter 2 "Age management in the health and social care sector"
Download EXTEND Newsletter 3 "Key findings"
Download Report WP 8: Good Practice

Other Joint Programming Initiative "More Years, Better Lives" projects:
FACTAGE- Fairer Active Ageing for Europe
WORKLONG