Ageing population

Question 1

Challenges of having an ageing population

Answer 1

• strains on pension and social security systems
• increasing demand for health care
• bigger need for trained health workforce
• pervasive ageism (denying older people the rights and opportunities available for other adults)

Question 2

What are the causes if an ageing population?

Answer 2

• improvements in sanitation, housing, nutrition and medical interventions
• life expectancy is rising globally
• falls in fertility (higher age of first pregnancy)
• decline in premature mortality
• more people reaching older age while fewer children are born
  (less people born but less dying therefore peeps just generally getting older with fewer youngsters to balance it out)

Question 3

Key facts

Answer 3

• +65 peeps = under 15
• 2025: there will be more +65 than <20
• 2025: proportion of population that is +85 will increase by 60%