Aging Population In Canada

Over the next 50 years ageing baby boomers will have great impact on the Canadian economy in the area of health care. Baby boomers who were born between 1946 and 1964 increased the demand for elementary schools, high schools, post- secondary education and family housing. By 2062 many baby boomers will turn 100, now that they are aging, the demand for health care, death services, retirement homes and medicine is increasing. From 2015 to 2062, there is a predicted cost of $7.2 trillion that will be spent in health care for senior citizens. For funeral services for the baby boomers in 2015, there is an estimated cost of $2.8 trillion, and old pension cost of $1.3 trillion. The senior

But it only provides success to a small amount of smart businessman. Looked from the macroeconomics perspective, Canada is not in good shape for future economic development. There are too many old people existing the work force while the supply of young workers is not enough to offset. And the new workers entering the labour force are not well experienced and skilled as the exiting baby boomers. The losing of large amount of experts is not easy to solve. Government is also facing challenges to deal with the rapidly increasing demand for health care and social support services to the old people. Looking at Japan’s experience of demographic greying, they are now making little, almost no economic growth due to the large amount of old people retiring from jobs. Without immediate and correct policy regulation, Canada will be in the same or worse situation. Using immigration alone cannot solve this problem, Canada needs to find out more strategies to deal with this real problem, which is already

Maturing of the population is likely a standout among the most examined and debated subjects in Canada today. While a few experts gauge the most noticeably awful as far as expenses to open administrations and work market deficiencies, others contend that Canada is very much prepared to face this social and demographic change - and that individuals shouldn 't stress that much over the developmental rate of seniors in the population.

There is diversity among all Canadian, hence there is differences among the aging population. Not all seniors are aging well and have the appropriate programs and services to meet their needs. Some seniors are victims of abuse and some are living in isolation and poverty. Some seniors suffer from chronic illness and other socio-economic factors limit the amount of money they can put away for retirement. Hence these middle and low income elderly retirees will have to depend mainly on the pension plan that is offered between the age of 60- 65. The age of 60-65 is regarded in Canada as the age of retirement. This paper will focus mainly on the disadvantaged older populations. The disadvantaged older populations are those who are currently

Over the last few decades Canadians’ desire and need for children has drastically changed. As stated in “Canada’s Shrinking Families”, “[C]anadian families are shrinking as fewer children are being born than in previous decades”(Mitchell 1). More and more data and information has emerging on family life in Canada, for example according to “ Canada’s Shrinking Families”, “[T]he average family size has declined from 3.7 members in 1971 to 3.0 in 2006” (Mitchell 1). Canada’s continuously changing society has changed its perspective on the need for larger families. As a result, this creates great impacts on Canada and its citizens. The impacts of shrinking families in Canada are considerably more positive as it can prevent overpopulation, create more positive impacts towards the Canadian economy, and cause an increase healthy child development.

Aging is inevitable, with age comes certain conditions, and diagnoses that affect healthy aging in Canadians. In Canada, and across the world, there are institutions that help care for people with these diagnoses. Nurses are one of the members of the health care team, and they help to try and reduce risks that can exist in aging Canadians. The purpose of this paper is to explore the risks of malnutrition in aging Canadians living in institutions who have vascular dementia.

Canada’s birth rates are below replacement levels and its population is aging, causing a significant drop in labour force growth over the long term. By 2030, nearly one out of every four Canadians will be 65 years or older. Moreover,

With a statistics of “death strikes” (Demography Division, 2016) from 1926 to 2015, observation of graph has indicated a data collection of “the number of deaths of children less than one year of age was much higher in 1926.” (Demography Division, 2016) According to this trend, Canada has developed a much lower death rate for new born babies going through between 1926 and 2005 as a comparison of 20% of death in 1926 vs. less than 1% of death in 2005. Improvement of this trend can be explained as a better living of standard, also, the perfection of welfare state, especially health care is acting as the main character in this

“ No other demographic event in U.S. history-save perhaps for the staggering death toll of the Civil War-has had greater significance than the Baby Boom”(Monhollon, xiii). The late 40’s and all through the 50’s was marked the baby boom era. During this time, soldiers were returning home from the war and were extremely excited to see their families. The Great Depression had delayed the increase of births in the 1930’s, but when World War II was over families wanted to take advantage of the fact that they had finally been reunited. Women started having more children and Canada’s birth rate skyrocketed.

Age: The Population of Canada is Aging. in Canada the median age was 39.9 years which means that half of the population was older than that and half was younger. The Median age in 1971 was 26.2 years. the fastest growing age group is made up of seniors. This is a trend that is expected to continue for the next several decades, mainly because of a below replacement fertility rate (ex. average number of children per woman), an increase in life expectancy, and the baby boom generation aging. in an estimated 5.0 million Canadians were 65 years of age or older in 2011 that is a number expected to double in the next 25 years to reach 10.4 million seniors by 2036. by 2051, about one in four Canadians is expected to be 65 or over. This information

It is difficult to presume what would happen if one day Alberta’s population has the lowest average of population expansion ? As Johnston and Maclennan (2008) indicate, “Alberta’s population growth continued to be the highest among all provinces” (para. 1). At the same time, fast development of urban areas, stable economy and oil reserves attract newcomers to move the province of Alberta. In addition, the government of Alberta takes all possible measures to increase the quality of life and develop health facilities for all population groups. Furthermore, Alberta’s population expectations observe the significant changes in the future birth rates, which play very important role for the community growth.

Canada is experiencing a rapid growth in aging population and it is not going to slow down anytime soon. In 1851 there were about 65, 000 seniors in Canada and the number in 2014 is 5.57 million.[1] In 2036 the elders will be over ten million and by 2051 one in every four Canadians will be a senior [2].

As the birthrate in developed countries drops well below the “replacement rate” of 2.1 children born to every woman, to somewhere between 1.1 and 1.4 children — the declining population will have severe consequences in the near and distant future. Demographic decline causes anxiety because it is thought to go hand-in-hand with economic decline. With fewer, younger workers to pay the health and pension bills of an elderly population, states face an unprecedented fiscal burden. The dependency ratio of those aged 65 and over to those of working age looks set to double from one-to-four to one-to-two in 2050."

A rapidly aging population and declining birth rate present a problem to policymakers as far as dynamic demand drivers in the economy, increase in health care costs, reduction in the working age population and unsustainable pension commitments are concerned (Beaujot, & Ravanera, 2013). This is the major socio-economic problem that is being witnessed in the province of Quebec, Canada. The standards of living of the people in the province have been greatly affected as the issue intensifies. Aging population has significantly affected economic development in the province as the government tends to focus more resources on tackling the issue instead of concentrating on more progressive projects. This paper provides an opinion based analysis on the problem of aging population and declining birth rate in the province of Quebec in Canada.

The study covers the basic and crucial issues due to the growth in the population of the senior citizens. However, at the same time, it is observed that, the birth rates have been reduced, creating all the more imbalance in the population in Canada. As a result of ageing, Canada is facing problems such as reduction in the income and resources, growth in the expenditures for the old-age population, impact on the social and economic parameters, and finally, the major problem of imbalance within the nation.