Editorial by Daniel Halliday

“…Finally, the third article, from Lukas Brenner and Oscar Stolper, studies the relationship between the receipt of intergenerational transfers (bequests or gifts) and the recipient’s private pension savings. Again, the focus is on Germany. Examination of data reveals that there is a sizeable difference in private pension savings between persons who inherit non-trivial fortunes and persons who inherit little or nothing. …”
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Optimal Benefit Distribution of a Tontine-like Annuity Fund with Age-Structured Models by Fan Zhang, Ping Chen, Xueyuan Wu

“…The core objective of this paper is to develop a pension model using ASMs, recognizing its significant potential for adaptation and expansion. …”
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Examining Social Insurance Perceptions and Attitudes among Zimbabwean Informal Sector Workers: A Study on Providing Social Protection to the Disenfranchised by Bronson Mutanda, Bomi Cyril Nomlala

“…Keywords: coverage, informal, insurance, pension, social, retirement…”
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Challenges in the transition between medical and vocational rehabilitation: a qualitative focus group study with service providers in Germany by Eileen Wengemuth, Lara Kleist, Lukas Kühn, Kyung-Eun Anna Choi

“…Results Twenty-four employees of rehabilitation institutions participated in five different focus groups. Especially the pension funds as institutions and medical rehabilitation clinics’ employees of different professions are considered to be relevant professional actors to ensure the continuity of care between medical and vocational rehabilitation. …”
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LEGAL MIGRATION – RIGHTS AND BENEFITS IN THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM by Nicoleta ANDRICA, Andreea-Florina FORA

“…EESSI (Electronic exchange of social security information) is use in different branch of social security such as unemployment, old age pension, accidents at work or sickness benefits, family benefits, or maternity and paternity benefits. …”
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Investment preferences of institutional investors in Indonesia: A comparative analysis of pressure-sensitive and pressure-insensitive groups by Dwi Prastowo Darminto, Abdulloh Mubarok, Nurmala Ahmar

“…Pressure-sensitive investors, such as banks and insurance companies, prefer companies with close business affiliations, while pressure-insensitive investors, such as mutual funds and pension funds, prioritize financial performance and corporate governance. …”
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The relationship between work disability and subsequent suicide or self-harm: A scoping review. by Alex Collie, Shannon Elise Gray

“…Literature search yielded 859 records of which 47 eligible studies were included, nine set in workers' compensation, 20 in sickness absence, 13 in disability pension systems, and five from mixed cohorts. Of 44 quantitative studies, 41 reported a positive relationship between work disability and suicidal behaviour. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Financial Flows in the Healthcare Systems of Germany, Austria and Czechia: Opportunities for Savings and Assessing the Tax-Like Nature of Health Insurance C... by Mini, Patrick

“…Background: Healthcare and pension expenditures represent significant budgetary commitments in OECD countries, with considerable variation in spending levels influenced by factors such as demographic structures, healthcare system models, and the role of private insurance. …”
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Examination of Depression Levels in Individuals Aged 65 and Over by Rukuye Aylaz, Nuri Yıldırım, Fidan Balkaya

“…In the study, it was found that the mean depression scores of the participants who were illiterate, living alone, living on 65-year-old pension and having more than one chronic disease were higher. …”
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The Effect of Child Abuse on University Student’s Psychological Status: A Retrospective study by Pary M. Azize, Farida A. Kadir, Lavin Luqman Othman

“…The depression test that consisted of four questions that determined the participant’s depression percentage The result and tables have been duplicated from the Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP), 21 females and 36 males participated in the survey. …”
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Integrated care for older people based on information and communication technology: a scoping review protocol by Yan Zhang, Shanshan Wang, Yutong Tian, Qingyun Cheng, Lixue Meng

“…Introduction Integrated care is an effective means of coping with the increasingly complex healthcare needs of elderly and alleviating pressure on national pension services. WHO regards integrated care as a method of providing high-quality healthcare and advocates integrated care based on digital technology. …”
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Growing old before growing rich: a scoping review on ageing-related policy interventions from the WHO Southeast Asian Region by Nachiket Gudi, Anu Mohan, Teddy Andrews Jaihind Jothikaran, Abhijith A K, Lena Ashok

“…The notable delimitations of the given policy interventions are ambiguity regarding the monitoring of the programmes, lack of benchmark standards for evaluation of progress, inadequate attention to rural poverty and lack of decentralisation.Conclusion WHO SEARO countries can respond better to ageing by reinforcing areas such as caregiver support and allowances, public financing in older care, old age health insurance, public-private partnership in mobile and institutional caring and social security systems including old age and disability pension.…”
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Assessing the Fiscal Burden of Overweight and Obesity in Japan through Application of a Public Economic Framework by Ataru Igarashi, Cillian Copeland, Nikos Kotsopoulos, Riku Ota, Silvia Capucci, Daisuke Adachi

“…Excess OAO-attributable healthcare costs were $5.4 billion (¥769 billion), while additional pension payment spending of $0.5 billion (¥77 billion) was estimated, due to higher levels of early retirement. …”
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Editorial by Pieter Vanhuysse, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…In Norway current pensioners have to contribute to enhancing financial sustainability, while Poland and Germany seem to be more politically constrained by the electoral power of pensioner-voters: reforms have put in place “grandfathering clauses” that protect current pensioners at the expense of younger generations. …”
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EU fiscal governance and budget consolidation in Visegrád countries by Zh. N. Komissarova, E. A. Sergeev

“…For instance, Hungary totally nationalized pension system in order to increase budget revenues. …”
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City of Wars: the Representation of Wartime London in Two Novels of the 1940s: James Hanley’s No Directions and Patrick Hamilton’s The Slaves of Solitude by Jean-Christophe Murat

“…Alors que le roman de Hanley est un récit de l’expérience directe de la guerre (la terreur des attaques aériennes, les va-et-vient entre la cave et les appartements...), la terne pension où cohabitent les personnages de The Slaves est le théâtre d’une bien plus insidieuse guerre des mots, par laquelle Miss Roach, la protagoniste, se livre à un examen impitoyable—mais pas toujours lucide—des enjeux de la fidélité et de la trahison (des amis, puis de la nation).…”
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DYSFUNCTION OF MODERN RUSSIAN INSTITUTES OF STATE AWARDS IN THE SPHERE OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE by Aleksey V. Ruchkin

“…In particular, the author points out that it is necessary to create an incentive system intended not only for remote prospect (for example, upon reaching a pension age), but also for the current labour period; material remuneration should be a sufficient impulse for professionals and based on a recognition of achievements, first of all, by colleagues (of the same profession), not unauthorized people. …”
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Swiss Orthopaedics Minimal Dataset: First Pilot Report of Reliability and Validity by Thorsten Jentzsch, Claudio Dora, Urs Müller, Mazda Farshad

“…It is a standardized, generic, and patient-reported outcome questionnaire, comprising ten items (location of disease, pain within the past four weeks, limitations at work/leisure/sleep/autonomy, subjective value of a body part, employment status, work disability (sick leave/pension), and household support). We conducted this study about the SOMD to report its reliability, validity, and clinical applicability. …”
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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a web-based routine assessment with integrated recommendations for action for depression and anxiety (RehaCAT+): protocol for a cluster rand... by Reinhold Kilian, Harald Baumeister, Yannik Terhorst, Johannes Knauer, Paula Philippi, Selina Kallinger, Sandro Eiler, Tamara Waldmann, Morten Moshagen, Martina Bader

“…Cost-effectiveness analyses will be conducted from a societal perspective and the perspective of the statutory pension insurance.Ethics and dissemination The study will be conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki. …”
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