How Ageing population is a problem Flashcards
There is a high proportion of what?
Elderly dependants.
Small proportion of what?
Working population.
What can the working population not do?
Cover the costs of the pension.
What is one of the reasons their is a high proportion of elderly dependants?
Pensior boom.
Baby boom - 1940/60s.
What will the working population have to do?
Work unpaid caring for elderly family members.
Stress.
Less leisure time.
What does an ageing population impact?
Future development.
There is pressure on who?
Hospitals.
What happens to the economy of the country?
It grows slowly.
Why are fewer children born?
No money or time.
Working population looking after elderly dependents.
If there is more elderly people…
The lower the state pension provided by the government.
There is a raise in what?
Taxes.
Retirement.
