Evaluating the ageing population as a major problem

• • Increasingly older adults are a prosperous section of society (the grey pound). Blaikie (1999) says that older adults are consumers and have disposable income and leisure time to spend.
• • High net migration can help resolve the problem of an increased dependency ratio, bringing in more working-age adults.
• • Pilcher (2010) suggests that the problems are really difficulties of social policy, rather than demography. The issue is not old people, but poor old people - often women. If social policy can reduce inequality and discrimination against women, then the ageing population would be less of a problem