Your Hundred Year Life (2022)

Your Hundred Year Life

2022

Documentary

Synopsis

Hurray, we are living longer. The bad news is pension systems are busting worldwide. With extensive old age poverty as a result. In The Netherlands the system is still solid, though inflation is hitting many pensioners here as well. Your 100-year life shows how even the richest countries have been brought to this point. Yet, there are genuine grounds for hope. It’s not too late yet. Providing we rethink the concept of retirement in general, and of old age, the quality of life as a pensioner and financing it in particular. It will make your hundredth anniversary something to celebrate.

Credits

Director

Ben Timlett

Bill Jones

Cast

David C. John as Self / Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, AARP

Dr. Anthony Yaw Baah as Self / General Secretary, Ghana TUC

Dr. Irene Gotz as Self / Prof., Inst. for Empirical Culture & Euro Ethnology

Hayford Atta Krufi as Self / CEO, Ghana Nat. Pensions Regulatory Authority

Helma Sick as Self / Founder, Frau & Geld Charity

Larry Kotlikoff as Self / Professor of Economics, Boston University

Laura Trejo as Self / Gen. Mgr., City of Los Angeles Department of Aging