Fifth, the concept will embody both rights and obligations. Thus, the
rights to social protection, lifelong education and training and so on may be
accompanied by obligations to take advantage of education and training
opportunities and to remain active in other ways. Active ageing should not
be a flimsy disguise for reducing rights, but it should emphasize the obliga-
tions that rights entail. Of course there is a risk here that an active ageing
strategy will be coercive, and it is always difficult for policymakers to find
the right balance between rights and obligations: I will come back to this is-
sue in the final section.