Translation of "Retraite pour raison de santé " (French → English) :

25. Stresses the importance of gender-based measures and life-cycle approach to eliminate the risk of early retirement due to health problems;

A minority of MS have adopted more extensive grounds for withdrawal, such as for instance reasons of public health, which often apply to all residence permits.

The population statistics are changing dramatically, and many states are, for ideological reasons, progressively withdrawing from retirement and healthcare provision, the idea being that private provision should step into the gap.

Senior clergy such as bishops, archdeacons and deans and residential canons of cathedrals and rectors or vicars of parishes, enjoy a very high security of tenure, subject to factors explained in paragraph 5 below (To which we shall return) They are subject to a mandatory retiring age, normally age 70, and can be removed from office as a result of disciplinary proceedings of a judicial nature.,on grounds of ill health., or in some cases (subject to financial payments) in the case of breakdown of relations in a parish or abolition of the relevant office.

Because one of them renounced exile precisely because she was a representative of her people, and the other does not want to be released on health grounds because she is not the only one in prison and she represents a Kurdish minority; other militants are in prison too and she does not want the freedom which her captors are prepared to give her, or which she is said to have been offered because of her health.

Strategy measures might include reform of pension and health care systems, and care for the elderly, increasing the effective retirement age, stimulating higher labour supply participation, especially for older workers, setting-up and increasing public pension fund reserves and possibly encouraging the expansion of supplementary privately-funded pension schemes (pillars 2 and 3).