Invecchiamento: orientamenti della Commissione Europea e politiche degli stati membri

European policies on ageing. Author makes a reconstruction of the welfare policies that the European Commission has promoted and activated to address the problem of an ageing population. The directives towards which the Commission has pushed the debate of the individual states can be summarized in: the promotion of active ageing; the review of interventions to make them sustainable in the face of demographic change; the development of long-term care policies. These recommendations have contributed to the development of reform processes in all European states. The forms taken by the services are the combined effect of the history of the individual welfare systems and show in part different characteristics