Health and Welfare Sector

PFZW and PGGM believe it is important that employees in the Health and Welfare sector can work in a healthy and enjoyable environment and remain vital throughout their lives. This also applies after retirement, enabling them, for example, to continue contributing as volunteers or informal caregivers. To support this, we provide employers with insights into their organisational climate and guide them towards proven interventions that help reduce absenteeism and staff turnover. Preventing disability and long-term incapacity for work is also directly linked to keeping pensions affordable.

Solutions to healthcare challenges

We cannot solve the challenges in the sector, but we do have the knowledge, data, experience and capital from our core pension product to develop solutions that demonstrably make an impact on labour market issues. To contribute to a vital society in which care and welfare workers can live, work and enjoy their retirement in good health, PGGM, together with PFZW, is focusing on the following three mutually reinforcing and mutually influencing ambitions:

• Vital participants: together with PFZW, we contribute to increasing the vitality of participants so that they are resilient, have a (career) perspective at their disposal and can retire vital and healthy financially, mentally and physically.
• Vital employer: together with PFZW, we contribute to increasing the vitality of employers. As organisations, vital employers are financially healthy, attractive to employees and have vital employees. Together with social partners, PGGM and PFZW want to contribute to increasing the vitality of employers.
• Vital sector: together with PFZW, we contribute to a vital sector that provides affordable, available and accessible care and welfare. PGGM and PFZW also want to participate in the shift from care to welfare.