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The Impacts of an Ageing Population

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. Implosion.

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The Impacts of an Ageing Population

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  1. 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.

  2. Implosion • “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

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

  4. 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:

  5. The impacts of an ageing population

  6. Japan’s population Pyramid http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/japan-tackles-ageing-society/7578.html

  7. 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/japan.justinmccurry/print • http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-population-timebomb-905430.html • http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/20/china-next-generation-ageing-population/print

  8. 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.

  9. Scan in ageing world map from guardian article!

  10. 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

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