Ageing Population

Question 1

What are the effects of an aging population?

Answer 1

Public services
One person household
Dependency ratio

Question 2

Public services

Answer 2

Older people consume a larger proportion of health and social care services than others
We should be aware of over generalising since many remind us good health well into old age

Question 3

One person households

Answer 3

Number of pensioners living alone has increased
Women generally live longer than men because they are younger than their husbands
This is describes as the feminisation of later life

Question 4

The dependency culture

Answer 4

As the number of retired people rises dependency ratio increases and more burden on workers
It would be wrong to assume that old necessarily equals economically dependent