elderly population
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- Created on: 02-01-16 10:31
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- elderly population
- Reasons for ageing population
- longer life expectency
- falling fertility rate
- disadvantage
- increased public spending
- more likely to rely on social services like welfare, nhs placing a financial burden on the tax payer
- loneliness and isolation
- christina victor (2003) 7% of old people are lonely
- demands of family members
- Grundy & Henrietta (2006)
- 'sandwich generation' middle age women caring for parents/ in law as well as their own children
- Grundy & Henrietta (2006)
- increased public spending
- advantages
- Beanpole families
- families with 3-5 generations that are close knit
- Grandparents
- Marsha Jones (2011)
- grandparents are the 'reserve army of labour' help with childcare and provide a large financial contribution to family life
- Marsha Jones (2011)
- older workers
- Elderly increasingly working past official retirement age
- Gold age pensioners (2011) elderly made a net contribution of £40b in 2010 to uk economy
- Elderly increasingly working past official retirement age
- voluntary sector
- retirees partake in voluntary work e.g. charity shops or local events
- WRVS (2011) elderly are the social glue of most communities
- retirees partake in voluntary work e.g. charity shops or local events
- old people as consumers
- David Kingman (2012)
- elderly spending power has increased, gross income of pensioners has increased by 50% from 1994 to 2010
- David Kingman (2012)
- Beanpole families
- falling birth rates
- causes
- children now seen as financial burden 2013 - £227 226 to raise a child
- childlessness now a lifestyle choice
- Beck & Beck Gernsheim (1995)
- individualism
- individuals no seek a life of their own no longer tied to traditional norms
- individualism
- causes
- increasing life expectency
- 1901 life expectency was 55 years old, 2001 84
- caused by improved diet, hygiene and health
- advances in medicine and technology
- higher standards of living
- less dangerous and physically demanding jobs
- Reasons for ageing population
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