Ageing Populations Flashcards
1
Q
What are the benefits?
A
Spend money on goods and services
Bring wisdom and experience to worlds of politics and commerce
Voluntary charitable work
2
Q
What is the dependency ratio?
A
= (pop. under 16) + (pop over 65) / pop (15-64) x 100
3
Q
What are the economic costs?
A
Health treatment
Housing costs
Fund care homes
Housing shortages as occupy for longer driving up prices for young
4
Q
What are the responsibility and care costs?
A
Emotional burden on unpaid carers as more degenerative diseases at old age
