Demography - Deaths

• Medical improvments - NHS - 1949
• Improved nutrition
• Health and saftey
• Smaller familes - less infection spreading
• Decline in dangerous occupations - mining
• Greater medical knowledge
• Higher incomes = healther lifestyle

• Males - UK - 1990 - 50
• Females - UK - 1990 - 57
• Males - UK - 2006 - 76
• Females - UK - 2006 - 81

• Fallen since 1900
• Falling from 1870 to 1930, then rose in the 30s and 40s

• Harldy anyone dies in early life
• People are living longer
• Average age in the UK in 1971 was 34

EFFECTS:

• Public services
• Dependancy ratio
• One-person pensioner households
• Social construction that the aging population is a 'problem' - 'Agism' and 'pensioner costs'
• GRIFFITHS report - Growing costs of health and social care for the growing number of elderly