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A Well-Conceived Vision for Extending Professional Life of Seniors
Abstract
A fundamental challenge related to enhancing the active life of senior professionals is to identify ways to assist promoting the role of elder people within the continuously ageing European society. One approach to achieve this purpose is to establish a support environment which shall provide fundamental assistance to senior professionals to fully use their expertise and experience to continue delivering professional services to the society. A well conceived vision need to be established to guide the society towards achieving this goal. This paper presents the first vision statement and its instantiations for enhancing the active life of senior professionals in the European society. It first proposes an approach for building the vision.
Keywords
Visioning multi-perspective vision professional active lifeReferences
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