• Decreasing infant, maternal and general mortality rates, increased life expectancy – changes to population structure
Impacts
• Increasing life expectancy – ageing population • Higher percentage of old age dependents • Increased need for healthcare facilities • Increasing age-related conditions, long-term care
Planning for ageing population
• Mandatory pension schemes • Raising pension entitlement age • Review of compulsory retirement ages • Gradual retirement • Changing attitudes, e.g. National Positive Ageing Strategy (Ireland) 2013
Mortality Rates: Developing Countries
• Higher infant and mortality rates • Basic healthcare unaffordable, e.g. Malawi • Malnutrition – child deaths, e.g. Malawi • No healthcare funding • Medicines unaffordable • Drugs to treat HIV/AIDS – unaffordable, e.g. Uganda
Socio-economic impacts
• High infant mortality rates – high birth rates, e.g. Mali – pressure on resources
• Decline in adult mortality – increased life expectancy – healthcare provision costly, family care of older people
