The Impacts of an Ageing Population

Learning Objectives:

To describe the challenges of an ageing population in Japan and the UK To sort the impacts into Social, Political and Economic categories.

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Parts of Europe are emptying. Childbirth has dropped to far below the level needed to maintain the population. If Italy gets stuck with current fertility rates, it will lose 86% of its native population by the end of the century, and Germany will lose 83%. Meanwhile in parts of Eastern Europe death rates are rising, bringing fears for the demographic future of the entire continent. Fred Pearce, Peoplequake, 2011

World map showing the % of over 60s in each country

The impacts of Ageing Populations:

Social: people, housing, health care, transport

Political: policies governments/elections

Economic: jobs and money

Use P.177 in AQA geog AS Text book, video clips and articles to complete the following table:

The impacts of an ageing population

Impacts Positive Negative

Social

Political

Economic

Japans population Pyramid

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/japa n-tackles-ageing-society/7578.html

Read the newspaper articles

As you read highlight the positive and negative issues raised by an increasingly ageing population http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/17/japa n.justinmccurry/print http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/homenews/the-population-timebomb-905430.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/20/chi na-next-generation-ageing-population/print

Video Clip
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/why -is-the-uks-population-ageing/537.html Our main case study will be East Devon where 64% of the population is over 65 years old. Watch the following DVD Afterwards add to your table any Social Economic or Political Impacts.

Scan in ageing world map from guardian article!

The future? Is this just a Japanese and European Phenomenon? Play the video clip Add a link to gapminder

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/01/population-crash-fred-pearce