BIG PICTURE:BIG PICTURE: What are the affects of an ageing population?

Learning Outcomes:

KnowKnow why some populations are ageing.

ExplainExplain the effects of ageing populations

SynthesiseSynthesise this information into an exam question.

Match up the definition to the example you think describes it best of all.

• 1. Primary: Jobs working with raw materials.

• 2. Secondary: Jobs creating something from raw materials.

• 3. Tertiary: The service industry.

• 4. Quaternary: Only made an official sector more recently and focuses on high tech industry and development.

Before you start! Before you start! The 4 different Job Sectors.

Match up the definition to the example you think describes it best of all.

• 1. Primary: Jobs working with raw materials. Agriculture (both subsistence and commercial), mining, forestry, farming, grazing, hunting and gathering, fishing, and quarrying

• 2. Secondary: Jobs creating something from raw materials. Metal working and smelting, automobile production, textile production, chemical and engineering industries, aerospace manufacturing, energy utilities, engineering, breweries and bottlers, construction, and shipbuilding.

• 3. Tertiary: The service industry. Retail and wholesale sales, transportation and distribution, entertainment, restaurants, clerical services, media, tourism, insurance, banking, healthcare, and law.

• 4. Quaternary: Only made an official sector more recently and focuses on high tech industy and development. Computer software development.

Check your answers.Check your answers.The 4 different Job Sectors.

More elderly people are living in __________, the working population isn’t large enough to pay for their _________ and many people don’t have other savings. As the population continues to age the problem is getting ________. The health service becomes under ________ because older people need more medical care than younger people.

CONNECT:CONNECT: What does stage 5stage 5 of the DTM mean?

povertypensions

worse pressure,

worse pensions poverty pressure

1. What are the reasons why people are living longer?

2. What effects is this likely to have on the country?

Activate: Ageing Populations

Use page 186-7 to produce 2 summary mind maps on the issues raisedissues raised and the opportunities createdopportunities created by

an aging population in the Richer world.Richer world.

Demonstrate:Demonstrate: Ageing Populations

Reflect:Reflect: So…what’s the problem?

• A. Make a key and shade the social social (people), economic economic (money) and environmental environmental impacts on your mind maps.

• B. Which is the largest pressurelargest pressure? Can you think of any reasons for this?(S,Ec,Env).

• C. Do you think an aging population creates more pressurespressures on the richer world or opens up more opportunities?opportunities? Why?

To be completed for homework…