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Abstract This article examines the arguments involved in claims about the fairness or unfairness of government policies that would require current working generations to bear the full impact of their lower fertility on the costs of retirement pensions. The analysis is set in the context of a wider review of debate on the role of the idea of generational fairness in assessing options for reform under conditions of population ageing. The article considers three questions: whether generational fairness poses a serious problem for pay‐as‐you‐go pension schemes; whether it is reasonable to assess the generational fairness of pension policy in isolation from other kinds of generational transfer; and whether there is a good case for redistribution from future generations in favour of the baby boom generation.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Towards an Evidence-Based Active Ageing Strategy -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Use of AAI for Policymaking -- 1.3 Subnational Adaptations of the AAI -- 1.4 Comparative Analysis of Active Ageing -- 1.5 Methodological Improvements in Measuring Active Ageing -- 1.6 Use of Active Ageing Index in Non-EU Countries -- References -- Part I: Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies Active Ageing Index and its Potential -- 2: Are Societies with a High Value on the Active Ageing Index More Age Integrated? -- 2.1 Background -- 2.2 Conditions for Cross-age Interaction -- 2.2.1 Laws and Policies -- 2.2.2 Settings -- 2.2.3 Controls -- 2.3 Cross-age Interaction and Ageism -- 2.4 Method -- 2.4.1 Data -- 2.4.2 Measures -- 2.4.3 Analytical Strategy -- 2.5 Results -- 2.5.1 AAI and Settings Enabling Cross-age Interactions -- 2.5.2 Determinants of Cross-age Friendships -- 2.5.3 Cross-age Friendship and Ageism -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3: The Expected, Evaluated, Perceived, Valued and Prevalent Social Roles of Older People: Are They by Consent? -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Demography-Related Context and Roles Older People Are Expected to Play in Actively Ageing Societies -- 3.3 Social Roles in Higher Age -- 3.3.1 The Active Ageing Index as an Evaluation of Role Performance on the National Level -- 3.3.2 Roles to Play: As "Society" Sees It -- 3.3.3 Preferred Roles: From the Perspective of Older People Themselves -- 3.4 Expected, Evaluated, Perceived and Valued Roles: Are They by Consent? -- 3.5 Roles Played -- 3.6 Conclusions and Discussion -- References -- 4: The Active Ageing Index (AAI) and its Relation to the Quality of Life of Older Adults -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Methods, Data and Variables -- 4.3 Results -- 4.4 Discussion -- References.