UK's ageing population
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- Created on: 02-11-14 12:47
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- Geography case study of ageing population- UK
- Why an ageing population
- People are living longer
- Improving living standards
- Advanced medicine
- Baby boom in the 1940s and 1960s
- Those born in 1940s are now retiring
- Birth rate falling
- Proportion of older people has gone up
- People are living longer
- What problems are caused
- Government is struggling to pay for state pensions
- Elderly people living in poverty
- Working population isn't large enough to pay for pensions
- Health service is under pressure as older people require more medical care
- Strategies to cope with an ageing population
- Raising retirement age
- People are working longer
- Encouraging immigration of young working people
- More people working and paying taxes
- Encouraging women to have more children
- Giving families tax credits to make having children more affordable
- Encouraging people to take out private pensions
- Less people are dependent on state pensions
- Raising retirement age
- Why an ageing population
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