Managing Ageing Populations

Question 1

What is an ageing population?

Answer 1

A population which has a high proportion of older people.

Question 2

Ageing populations can face what type of problems?

Answer 2

Social.

Economic.

Question 3

An ageing population impacts on what?

Answer 3

Future development.

Question 4

The population structure of an ageing population has more what? and less what?

Answer 4

More older people.

Less younger people.

Question 5

Why does an ageing population have more older people and less younger people?

Answer 5

Less people are having babies.

More people surviving until old age.

Question 6

What stage must a country be in to be ageing?

Answer 6

Stage 5.

They must be wealthy.

Question 7

Who are older people supported by?

Answer 7

Working population

Aged 16-64.

Question 8

Older people are _____ on the working population

Answer 8

Dependant.

Question 9

In an ageing country there’s a higher proportion of what?

Answer 9

People who are dependant.

Question 10

The working class need to pay what?

Answer 10

Taxes.

Question 11

What do the government use taxes for?

Answer 11

Pay the state pensions of older people.

Retirement homes/healthcare.

Question 12

Why do taxes need to go up?

Answer 12

Because they are more pensions to pay for.

Older people need more healthcare.

Question 13

The economy of a country will grow what?

Answer 13

More slowly.

Question 14

Why will the economy of a country grow more slowly?

Answer 14

Less money being spent on things that help economy grow.

Education and businesses.

Question 15

More money is being spent on things that don’t help the economy grow like what?

Answer 15

Retirement homes.

Question 16

Healthcare services are stretched out more, why?

Answer 16

Because older people need more medical care.

Question 17

Socially what do people need to spend more time doing?

Answer 17

Working as unpaid carers for older family members.

Question 18

If the working population needs to spend unpaid time looking after older family members what will happen?

Answer 18

They will have less leisure time.

Be more stressed and worried.

Question 19

Birth rate will fall, why?

Answer 19

Can’t afford lots of children when they have dependant older relatives.

Question 20

The more old people there are the lower the what?

Answer 20

Pension provided by the government.

Question 21

What will older people have to do later?

Answer 21

Retire later.

Can’t afford to get by on a state pension.

Question 22

There are different ____ to cope with an ageing population

Answer 22

Strategies.

Question 23

Name 2 stratedgies which don’t help towards sustainable development

Answer 23

Encouraging larger families.

Encouraging the immigration of younger people.

Question 24

Name a place where encouraging families is used?

Answer 24

Italy.

Women are offered cash rewards to have more children.

Question 25

Encouraging larger families means what?

Answer 25

Increases number of younger people.

When they start work they will be larger working population to pay taxes/support elderly people.

Question 26

Encouraging immigration of young people means what?

Answer 26

Increases working population.

More people paying taxes to support ageing population.

Question 27

Name 2 strategies helping towards sustainable development

Answer 27

Raising the retirement age.

Raising taxes.

Question 28

What happens when the retirement age raises?

Answer 28

People stay in work longer.

Contributes to the state pensions and personal pensions for longer .

Question 29

If the retirement age rises people will claim the state pension for…

Answer 29

Less time.

Question 30

What will raising taxes for the working population do?

Answer 30

Increases the amount of money available to support the ageing population.