The privileged old in Denmark

The author builds on personal experience as a retired civil servant. He has been the initiator of the Academy for the Third Age and, as chairman of The Danish Social Political Association, has worked with the problems of the elderly. In his attempt to describe the situation of privileged elderly citizens, he has tried to emphasise that their limited time perspective urges them to live one more life of intense experiences. The freedom which they have acquired with retirement makes this easier to achieve.