How Does Elderly Population Affect The Elderly

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United Kingdom and Philippines
Health Care for Elders
Justin Gungap
HS 3060
Global Aging

Introduction
The world wasn't born yesterday and so is our population. The aging population remains a problem today for the rest of the world. The aging population effects the elder population in may ways. The aging mass is an issue where people over 65 years old is higher than the number of younger mass. There are projections all over the world where the aging mass will increase in the upcoming centuries. If we look on the bright side we do have more elder people than ever.
The aging population hold potential treat towards health guardianship, health care services, pensions and labor supply for the future. One of the biggest conflict for an aging population in our society is the amount of public spendings that will take place and how a health care system will find a way to support all elder people including the rest of the population.
The increase in elder people means the bigger amount of money will be spend on our health care. Health care is the area that is first in line when it comes to age structure of the population especially with the increasing amount of older age people.
Health care costs are also more likely to rise when life expectancy increases. With that added to the list of problems, we have to question if the government can support with enough money. With the high amount of elder people means an increase amount of retirees which means a decrease in amount of working ages. With that being said government will lose significant taxes for states incomes. If the government will be occupied and worried about spending for the aging population will probably mean lack of funds for other social activities for economic...

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