New Policy Brief: Four steps to managing demographic change locally

Most regions in Europe will soon (or already) face at least one of the following phenomena: a shortage of care workers, rural depopulation, and increasing social isolation.

The latest FutuRes Policy Brief, published in February 2025, presents 4 steps to demographic resilience on the local level.

In this Briefing, four high-level policymakers recommend best-practices:

1. Advance the local care sector
2. Show accountability, build trust, prevent polarisation
3. Create a local demographic strategy
4. Counter depopulation effectively

Reading time: 6 minutes

Created by Population Europe, with guidance from: Alexandra Schiltz, Head of the unit "Demographic Change, Equal Living Conditions" in the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth; Idoia Mendia, Member of the European Parliament; Justina Jakštienė, Vice-Minister of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania; Mike Andrews, Population Team Leader at the Scottish Government.