"They're Our Future" | Certain Futures Episode Four

About this episode

The episode explores the meaning of resilience through personal experiences and demographic research findings.

A visit to the emergency room illuminates what resilience means through personal experience. What happens when a European demographic research project asks a Berlin podcaster from the United States to explore their findings? Find out in episode four of Certain Futures. The final episode in this series begins with host Daniel Stern visiting the emergency room. He's inspired to reconsider the meaning of resilience. Reflecting on the journey of Certain Futures unveils a few more interesting twists and interesting complexities. Returning to conversations from previous episodes, Dan finds a hopeful theme for looking at today and into our Future. Episode Four, "They're Our Future" includes new clips from: Prof. Jakub Bijak Dr. Miguel Sánchez-Romero Prof. Anna Rotkirch Prof. Arnstein Aassve Prof. Letizia Mencarini This limited-series podcast is produced by Radio Spaetkauf in collaboration with the FutuRes Project . The FutuRes Project brings demographers and economists together with policymakers to advance what we know and how we plan for Europe's ageing society. You can find all the FutuRes research and other resources for understanding ageing and resilience in Europe on their website…

People in this episode

Host: Daniel Stern

Guests: Jakub Bijak, Miguel Sánchez-Romero, Anna Rotkirch, Arnstein Aassve, Letizia Mencarini

Topics covered

• resilience
• demographic research
• personal experience
• future

Keywords

• Berlin
• podcast
• Certain Futures

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: They're Our Future, Certain Futures

Places: Berlin, the United States, Europe

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