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Ageing Population (Why is average age of the population increasing (The…
Ageing Population
Why is average age of the population increasing
The average age of the population is increasing largely due to increasingly better healthcare
The other three main causes are:
Increasing life expectancy
Declining infant mortality
Declining fertility
Age Pyraimid
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/population/population_change_structure_rev5.shtml
Pros V Cons
Pros
Economy Boost
More social cohesion and community involvement
Less Crime
Family support
Cons
A growing burden of dependency
More poverty and family hardship
Loss of skill and experience from the labour force
more pensioner one person hosueholds
More ill health and disability
Family Stress
More work for women
Old Age related inequalities
Class
Middle class have better occupational pensions
Middle class more likely to have high savings
Poorer people have shorter life expectancy and suffer more infirmities
Making it harder to maintain a youthful identity
Gender
Womens lower earnings and career breaks mean lower pensions
Sexist stereotyping: Old Hags
What is an Ageing population
Population ageing is an increasing median age in the population of a region due to declining fertility rates and/or rising life expectancy.
Modern Social View of Age
socially constructed Age statuses
Lots of the discourse about ageing and old age is negative
Seen as an issue
Griggiths report 1988 on the care of elderly saw society as facing a problem
Talk on 'pensions time bomb', treated with fear.
Ageism
Stereotyping of people on the basis of their age, portraying alderly as weak and feeble
Postmodern view of society
Postmodernist socioogists argue that in today's postmoder society, the fixed, ordely stages of the life course have broken down.
Eg: trends of children dressing in more adult clothing
Eg2: later marriage
Eg3: Early retirement
These all blur the boundaries
