| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 未來學研究所碩士班 === 96 === One of the most striking features of current society is the extended life-span of human being. With this drastic transition, people’s life and career development may change and the retirement spectrum will be ranging far more broadly. Additionally, images of retirement will not remain merely at the negative side, and ways of thinking and expectations of retirement will differentiate between gender. Consequently, this research aims at exploring the emerging images of a coming aging society of Taiwan.
By adopting semi-structured interviews and scenario analysis, this research gathers ideas and opinions of retirees and quasi-retirees who hold valuable in-depth worldviews on images of alternative futures of retirement. The analysis intends to find the key drivers that are forming the aging society, and to describe the contents and to derive possible scenarios of retirement for Taiwanese aging society. Based on the analysis, the images of retirees might be contained within the traditional retirement system and age has become the only factor dominating images of retirement. However, both retirement system and societal atmosphere are changing constantly, the images of retirement of quasi-retirees could be redirected. They may disregard the factor of age, and turn to other alternatives of life experience at work. These new life pictures may lead to big entrepreneurial opportunities.
In conclusion, this research applies alternative scenarios to explore a great deal of thinking approaches to depict possible, probable, preferable and worst futures of retirement images of Taiwan aging society. With these scenarios, the future of an aging society and its changing patterns can be further envisioned. Hence, an aging society is a significant issue for individuals to reexamine personal life experience.
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