one EU country with an ageing population- UK
- Created by: Jenny Jones
- Created on: 19-05-14 18:49
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- Ageing population- Uk
- Causes
- increased life expectancy and falling birth rates
- life expectancy is longer bc of advances in medicine and improved living standards
- proportion of elderly therefore increasing
- baby boom of 1940's-1960's now 'pensioner boom'
- since 1970's number of babies born fallen
- Problems
- more elderly living in poverty, working population not large enough to pay decent pension
- health service under pressure as older people need more care
- Solutions
- raise retirement age
- encourage immigration of young people to the UK
- encourage women to have more children
- encourage private pensions
- Successful?
- to early to tell
- Causes
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