Key messages: Up-to-date skills, good access to employment services and better working conditions are three key aspects of employability that will affect the ability of older workers to find and keep a job and that will influence their retirement decisions. These three aspects will become increasingly important as larger cohorts of workers move into the older age groups and more of them stay on longer at work. Again, the responsibility for change needs to be shared between governments, employers, trade unions and older workers themselves.