Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ageing Population
- THE GRIFFITHS REPORT 1988
- The way we think about old age is negative
- Constructed it as a problem
- Care of the elderly
- Problem of
meeting escalating
costs
- Health and Social Care
- For old people
- Concerns about
'pensions time bomb'
- Fears about how
society will meet
the cost of
providing
pensions for the
elderly
- Ageism
- Negative stereotyping
- On basis of age
- Portrays the elderly as
- Vulnerable, Incompetent
- Burden to Society
- Contrasting views of the elderly in traditional societies
- Elderly are respected
- Ageing associated
with increasing status
- DEPENDENCY RATIO
- NUMBER OF YOUNG
& ELDERLY % TOTAL
ADULT POPULATION
- The larger the DR
- Greater the burden on the average adult