Managing Ageing Populations Flashcards
What is an ageing population?
A population which has a high proportion of older people.
Ageing populations can face what type of problems?
Social.
Economic.
An ageing population impacts on what?
Future development.
The population structure of an ageing population has more what? and less what?
More older people.
Less younger people.
Why does an ageing population have more older people and less younger people?
Less people are having babies.
More people surviving until old age.
What stage must a country be in to be ageing?
Stage 5.
They must be wealthy.
Who are older people supported by?
Working population
Aged 16-64.
Older people are _____ on the working population
Dependant.
In an ageing country there’s a higher proportion of what?
People who are dependant.
The working class need to pay what?
Taxes.
What do the government use taxes for?
Pay the state pensions of older people.
Retirement homes/healthcare.
Why do taxes need to go up?
Because they are more pensions to pay for.
Older people need more healthcare.
The economy of a country will grow what?
More slowly.
Why will the economy of a country grow more slowly?
Less money being spent on things that help economy grow.
Education and businesses.
More money is being spent on things that don’t help the economy grow like what?
Retirement homes.
Healthcare services are stretched out more, why?
Because older people need more medical care.
Socially what do people need to spend more time doing?
Working as unpaid carers for older family members.
If the working population needs to spend unpaid time looking after older family members what will happen?
They will have less leisure time.
Be more stressed and worried.
Birth rate will fall, why?
Can’t afford lots of children when they have dependant older relatives.
The more old people there are the lower the what?
Pension provided by the government.
What will older people have to do later?
Retire later.
Can’t afford to get by on a state pension.
There are different ____ to cope with an ageing population
Strategies.
Name 2 stratedgies which don’t help towards sustainable development
Encouraging larger families.
Encouraging the immigration of younger people.
Name a place where encouraging families is used?
Italy.
Women are offered cash rewards to have more children.
Encouraging larger families means what?
Increases number of younger people.
When they start work they will be larger working population to pay taxes/support elderly people.
Encouraging immigration of young people means what?
Increases working population.
More people paying taxes to support ageing population.
Name 2 strategies helping towards sustainable development
Raising the retirement age.
Raising taxes.
What happens when the retirement age raises?
People stay in work longer.
Contributes to the state pensions and personal pensions for longer .
If the retirement age rises people will claim the state pension for…
Less time.
What will raising taxes for the working population do?
Increases the amount of money available to support the ageing population.
