id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-030998-1u3fme80 van Dalen, Hendrik P The COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for Financially Fragile and Aging Societies 2020-07-30 .txt text/plain 2930 143 53 The financial fragility of households and the rising proportion of people becoming obese calls for intensified efforts, both by individuals and employers to create financial buffers and keep on investing in health. The financial fragility of households and the rising proportion of people becoming obese calls for intensified efforts, both by individuals and employers to create financial buffers and keep on investing in health. The financial fragility of organizations is a wake-up call that a short-term focus on efficiency can be counterproductive and may overturn the efforts to start working longer. To correct this state of affairs, societies can resort to different measures such as the long-term route of investing in financial literacy (Kaiser & Menkhoff, 2017) , but they can also take a more direct approach, such as by making supplementary pension savings by employers mandatory, or by nudging and informing workers in the direction of making their households more financially stable (Clark, Morrill, & Allen, 2012) . ./cache/cord-030998-1u3fme80.txt ./txt/cord-030998-1u3fme80.txt