– To retire can shorten life the oldest Secretary of State (77) works to include older people in the workforce. http://www.abcnyheter.no/files/imagecache/normal/2014-05/astrid3_5824.jpg
Norges Secretary of State elder (77) works to include older people in the workforce.
country’s oldest and most experienced secretary says the following:
– Yes to exit the workplace can be dangerous.
Many were warm the hearts when Astrid Heiberg Nøklebye was appointed secretary of the Conservative Health and Human Bent Høie autumn 2013. For the new Secretary of State is not less than 77 years old.
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Symbol Bearer
– I knew nothing in advance. Høie called me to talk about something else. Before we were put on, he said that there was something else he wanted to ask me about, that I would be one of his state secretaries, she says.
– How did you react?
– I had to ask if he knew how old I am. He knew, and age was not a problem. The appointment has aroused an enormous enthusiasm out there. It has been really fun, really. I have become a kind of symbol carries that the old should also be allowed to join and use their expertise, she said.
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Up to speed
She can tell that the Minister had a plan. She should just be a torch bearer for a working life that can accommodate seniors.
– The minister was preoccupied with the positive signaling effect of hiring a 77-year-old. I was supposed to be a symbol, she says.
She has become a symbol for a cause she burns strongly. Strong commitment makes it easier to handle a demanding job with long hours.
– If I’m here full time? Yes, it får’n say! There is plenty to do. There is a lot to read, much to familiarize themselves and many people to meet, she said.
– Are you tired?
– I’m careful to get enough sleeping. With adequate sleep, this goes very well. And I’ve done incredibly funny. I have gone up a lot in speed since I started. I remember better, I move faster and I discovered the other day that I managed to run to the tram – I have not done in years and days, she said.
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same pace
People who have lived for a while will recognize the name and face. For Astrid Heiberg Nøklebye was in the 80s both State Secretary in the then Ministry of Social Affairs and Consumer Administration and Reform in Willoch government (Willoch II).
She has been in the top political echelon earlier. She has been in dance before.
– What has changed?
– I do not think the pace is higher today than then. The time was completely filled up then as now. Now it’s actually more like parts of the work. When I was alone as secretary of state, while today there are four state secretaries in the department, she said.
The ministerial fleet is significantly larger. This represents a marked difference in the 80 years and the current ministry work.
– We had no PC at the time. It was basically wonderful. I’m having a serious handicap that I was secretary when PCs came. So I did not learn it from scratch. And every time I have started to learn it properly, change it up. There are new applications and new interfaces. I find it helpful to learn it, but the staff here takes into account that I occasionally need a little extra help, she said.
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Forging thoughts
She is something as rare as an evocation of the subject matter she works with. She is her own example. For in addition to the role of senior symbol, she was given the task of working with older people in the workforce.
Specifically, the main task is to take care of the Council for Senior Citizens, which was recently transferred from the Ministry of Labour to the Ministry of Health and Care Services.
Council’s role is in the name – it has an advisory role to the authorities in matters concerning the elderly.
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Now Nøklebye Heiberg change senior Council’s role so that it will gain more influence and a clearer position. She will create a think tank.
– Now we just put in place who are members of the council, and it was gratifying to find that all the respondents agreed to participate. And no one asked for compensation or payment. They will obviously get it, but they were more concerned about the issue than money. I want this to be Norway’s think tank for the elderly in the workplace. It should work on how to bring about a change in attitudes to the elderly people to be working. I do not understand why we have not done anything like that before – it should have been done long ago, she said.
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In funerals
She let there be no question about the specific objectives of the think tank:
– In the first place, it’s that the older people to stay in work longer. If you are healthy, you can not stop working at the age of 63-64 years, says she engaged.
– Is not it good to be able to enjoy retirement?
– My clear impression is that many want to be at work. Since I became Secretary of State, I have received countless inquiries from people who want to work on. Many people wonder if they can come to an agreement with your employer so that they can continue in the job. And it’s not just academics, but also the general public. Many think that the job is all right to go to, she says.
Cues? They are belonging and identity.
– Many miss having an affinity. The job has a lot to do with identity, and the job is the place where you most easily get a versatile affiliation. Where will encounter people with different opinions, different values ??and different ages. Such a mixed crowd of people, it is otherwise difficult to find, because we have such a alderssegmentert society where children meet at school and the old senior centers and funerals. It gets very truncated.
She believes it does not have line of reality that people over 60 more similar to each other.
– Man looks at the group between 60 and 90 years as the “old” and they are seen as fairly similar. Group between 30 and 60 years – the adults, if you will – are not regarded as equal. In practice, the differences are large and they are highest among those between 60 and 90 years, since the differences between humans becomes greater the longer we live, she says, a little redder cheeks of commitment.
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Obsolete regulations
Employers often get up to push the elderly out of the labor market by means of severance and gratuity. The mature Secretary of State believes the causes rather be found in the Norwegian regulations.
– We have a society that does not use the capabilities of versatility and diversity, as it is spoken so nice about the festive. It is amazing that we have retained a system from the 50′s without customize it and change it in line with the world and society have changed. We live such longer than before, and when we get this leap between 60 and 90 years, where people somehow should not be working, says Secretary of State.
Nøklebye Heiberg medicine is changing the rules so that seniors are better able to work after they reach retirement age.
She points out that labor lacks large groups of workers, such as scientists and engineers. Keeping older people with these skills will reduce the shortage. A side effect is grateful lower pension and social security payments, which will reduce the impact of an aging population.
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Inherent power
– While OECD figures show that the employment rate among the elderly is high in Norway compared to other countries?
– Yes, the statistics show it. But it is not so interesting. What’s interesting is how we pave the way for our own people, how we use our own resources. It is the workforce, not just oil, which gives Norway resources. It’s about the work inherent power, she said.
Now it is not only torch bearer and the Secretary of State’s talking. Now also speaks psychiatrist Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg, who has worked extensively with psychosomatic conditions.
– Work is for many identity. I will tell about the longtime gardener in Wind’s old baroque garden. He dreaded bad to quit when he was 67. His life and his identity was the garden, the bushes and flowers. For us doctors to be medical grounds our identity. We lose both work, the title and part of our identity. But it’s not just the doctors concerned. This was also the gardener on Vinderen, and it applies to many others, she says.
She believes therefore the consequences can be very serious.
– It has to do with their own sense of value that is worth anything as a human. If you lose something of value this experience, it is a loss that can cause depression. You become depressed. Depression is quite dangerous because it sets the speed so far down that it does. If you do not think you can achieve something, one might assume that one can not speak of other things in life. It becomes a vicious circle. There is no doubt that it can shorten life, says Nøklebye Heiberg.
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