1. Aging Populations
Key idea: An aging population impacts on the future development of a country.
Specification Content: The relationship between population structure and population decline.
The problems associated with an aging dependant population.
Government strategies to cope with an aging population in one EU country.

2. The uk After watching the video answer the questions:
What caused the aging population in the UK?
What does an aging population pyramid look like?

3. Population Pyramids
Put these statements on the right place and on the right pyramid. Make sure you can justify your answer
Primary school class sizes fall
New maternity hospital is needed.
New “Shopmobility” centre opens in Southgate Mall.
Billy White queues for his annual flu injection.
There are more Golden Weddings.
Parents start to think more about family planning.
Grandparents are rare.
Taxes have to rise to pay for growing dependent population.
Scunthorpe General Hospital advertises in Indonesia for new staff.
Grandparents take increased responsibility for child care.
A mother sobs over the grave of the last of her six children who died in a typhoid epidemic.
Mr Brown is surprised at the large number of elderly women at Gala Bingo.
The public health inspector smiles as the building of the new sewers is finished.

4. Problems High dependency ratio Pensions Health care Social care
Housing
Drop in exports
Less representation
‘generation gap’

5. Benefits Higher life expectancy Providing care for dependants
Could choose to work long/volunteer
Disposable income

6. Task Read the cards and sort them into categories (min 2, max 6).
Re-sort the cards into economic, social and political issues.
Economic – about money
Social – about people
Political - about governments

7. Task
One way in which an MEDC gains from having an aging population is...
I think this because...
One social issue about an aging population is...
One economic issue about an aging population is...
One political issue about an aging population is...

8. Case Studies
Using the resources on Moodle, build a case study for each of the three countries below:
France (there is a good section in the textbook) UK
Italy
Include: the causes, any specific problems/benefits, and how they are addressing the problem.