Aging in Italy: overview

What is it about?

Italy is a Southern European Country with 60.8 million inhabitants. It is known for its large proportion of elderly subjects (conventionally those aged 65 years and older), which was 21.4% in 2015. This group is still growing due to many factors that are described in this article. Although international migration has increased in recent years, the addition of a foreign segment of the population has neither compensated for nor significantly curtailed the aging phenomenon. This articles describes an overview of the studies performed in Italy and focusing on aging, both at the national and international level.

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Why is it important?

The impact of aging on the economic sustainability of Italy concerns the progressive reduction of the workforce, high incidence of pension spending in the overall resources allocated to welfare, recent reform of the pension system, and the growing issue of “non-self-sufficiency” in the elderly. In a period of limited financial resources that affects many countries in Europe, Italian Physicians and researchers in the field of geriatrics and gerontology are not only promoting quality of life in the elderly, but also contributing to economic stability and social organization.