Programme tonight on B.B.C.2 at 9.00 p.m.,pensioners become rock stars, serious issues here, how do we treat and look after elderly people in the United Kingdom? Birth rates are falling and the population is increasingly becoming elderly, this means fewer workers, this active part of the population contributes tax, that funds the services that are used by both young and elderly dependants, for example the National Health Service.

There are a number of reasons for an increasingly grey society in the United Kingdom…

• Life expectancy has dramatically increased, we are living longer, due to better quality of life, improvements in healthcare,changes in occupations and improved working conditions.
• People are having less children. People are getting married later, increased use of contraception, women are increasingly emancipated, education means some are choosing to focus on careers, reducing the potential time they have to have children. Increasingly children are not an economic asset, but a burden, you are expensive!

This ageing population will have impacts for all of us….

How do we pay for the care of the elderly? Who pays for healthcare and pensions?

How do we get the necessary workers to run our services and work in industry?

Will we have to work longer?  Will we be willing to work longer? The Government says so…

Will younger workers be prepared to pay higher taxes for support an increasingly elderly population?

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Written on Mon, 28 May 2007 at 9:41 am

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