Also age does not tell any longer much about one s life situation. This requires age-neutral welfare policy. Legal full age should entitle the person to be treated as a full citizen with its obligations and rights. This is something that the Finnish government at the present does not care about. Welfare is a combination of sufficient financial support and housing, feeling of security and being valued and important as a person.
Every person is entitled to work and to be honoured in the work.
Since the unemployment in Finland is currently the second highest in the European Union at, work and lack of work endangers the welfare and well-being of many people. Private services can neither rescue nor destroy the welfare state. Also the services must become more many-sided. Especially services provided by organisations and cooperative associations, the so called third sector, should be enlarged. The third sector enlarges the concept of work and gives market value to all work.