Aging Population In Canada

Rising health care costs and population aging has fuelled the debate about the financial sustainability of Canada’s healthcare system. This demographic change in the Canadian society will deeply impact on all aspects of social, economic, and political factors. The extensive use of health care by the seniors has put a heavy burden on the universal health care system. This paper will closely analyze the sustainability of the Canadian healthcare system and the challenges our government has to face as our population ages and uses more of the healthcare expenditure. By examining the issue of health care sustainability, this paper will also propose recommendations and explore the implications of those recommendations.

One of the most pressing issues faced by Canada today is unemployment. In fact, reports confirm that the jobless rate continues to increase every year. As of February this year, the unemployment rate was at 7.0%. The presence of unemployment rate is evident in various provinces. In Quebec, the number of people working declined by 26,000 in February. Alternately, the number of employed in British Columbia fell by 10,000; while Saskatchewan nearly 6,000 individuals are unable to find jobs. The Conference Board of Canada projected that the country’s labour woes could reach to more than one million workers by 2020. In addition to this, experts predict that the unemployment rate in this country will surpass that of the United States. Along with the dismal figures and projections, the problem of unemployment consequently creates numerous negative consequences on the nation’s economy, its government, and of course its people. Some of the known effects of unemployment include reduced spending power, an increase in financial cost, recession, and even crimes and violence. Individually, long-term unemployment may result to depression, loss of self-respect, and strained relationships with family and friends – ultimately causing damage to the person’s overall well-being. The adverse effects of unemployment only show that this issue imposes a significant cost both on a national and individual level. As such, it is of primary importance to create an immediate plan of action to alleviate

Over the next 50 years ageing baby boomers will have great impact on the Canadian economy in the area of health care. Baby boomers who were born between 1946 and 1964 increased the demand for elementary schools, high schools, post- secondary education and family housing. By 2062 many baby boomers will turn 100, now that they are aging, the demand for health care, death services, retirement homes and medicine is increasing. From 2015 to 2062, there is a predicted cost of $7.2 trillion that will be spent in health care for senior citizens. For funeral services for the baby boomers in 2015, there is an estimated cost of $2.8 trillion, and old pension cost of $1.3 trillion. The senior

Nowadays, the population of Canada is increasing year by year. According to my research, Ontario has 13.5 million populations, which is two fifths of overall and also approximately 1.5 million are older people. Five years later, population of the elderly might up to twice. In another word, Canada will have a tendency of step into the aging society in the future.

But it only provides success to a small amount of smart businessman. Looked from the macroeconomics perspective, Canada is not in good shape for future economic development. There are too many old people existing the work force while the supply of young workers is not enough to offset. And the new workers entering the labour force are not well experienced and skilled as the exiting baby boomers. The losing of large amount of experts is not easy to solve. Government is also facing challenges to deal with the rapidly increasing demand for health care and social support services to the old people. Looking at Japan’s experience of demographic greying, they are now making little, almost no economic growth due to the large amount of old people retiring from jobs. Without immediate and correct policy regulation, Canada will be in the same or worse situation. Using immigration alone cannot solve this problem, Canada needs to find out more strategies to deal with this real problem, which is already

Maturing of the population is likely a standout among the most examined and debated subjects in Canada today. While a few experts gauge the most noticeably awful as far as expenses to open administrations and work market deficiencies, others contend that Canada is very much prepared to face this social and demographic change - and that individuals shouldn 't stress that much over the developmental rate of seniors in the population.

There is diversity among all Canadian, hence there is differences among the aging population. Not all seniors are aging well and have the appropriate programs and services to meet their needs. Some seniors are victims of abuse and some are living in isolation and poverty. Some seniors suffer from chronic illness and other socio-economic factors limit the amount of money they can put away for retirement. Hence these middle and low income elderly retirees will have to depend mainly on the pension plan that is offered between the age of 60- 65. The age of 60-65 is regarded in Canada as the age of retirement. This paper will focus mainly on the disadvantaged older populations. The disadvantaged older populations are those who are currently

Over the last few decades Canadians’ desire and need for children has drastically changed. As stated in “Canada’s Shrinking Families”, “[C]anadian families are shrinking as fewer children are being born than in previous decades”(Mitchell 1). More and more data and information has emerging on family life in Canada, for example according to “ Canada’s Shrinking Families”, “[T]he average family size has declined from 3.7 members in 1971 to 3.0 in 2006” (Mitchell 1). Canada’s continuously changing society has changed its perspective on the need for larger families. As a result, this creates great impacts on Canada and its citizens. The impacts of shrinking families in Canada are considerably more positive as it can prevent overpopulation, create more positive impacts towards the Canadian economy, and cause an increase healthy child development.

As you already mentioned, that Canada performs better on two health outcome measures, infant mortality rates, and life expectancy. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), indicated that life expectancy is associated with multiple factors outside the health care system, such as modifiable risk factors to health (smoking, alcohol consumption, nutrition habits, and physical activity), but access to high-quality primary care and treatments also plays an important role (OECD, 2017). Life expectancy in Canada is 81.5 years in 2011, which is about three years higher than in the United States (U.S.) according to the OECD statistics reported on Health at a Glance 2015 OECD Indicators (OECD, 2017).

Aging is inevitable, with age comes certain conditions, and diagnoses that affect healthy aging in Canadians. In Canada, and across the world, there are institutions that help care for people with these diagnoses. Nurses are one of the members of the health care team, and they help to try and reduce risks that can exist in aging Canadians. The purpose of this paper is to explore the risks of malnutrition in aging Canadians living in institutions who have vascular dementia.

Canada’s birth rates are below replacement levels and its population is aging, causing a significant drop in labour force growth over the long term. By 2030, nearly one out of every four Canadians will be 65 years or older. Moreover,

High population in Canada is very good especially for the economy but, there tend to be a couple of factors where the population poses a threat to Canada. Firstly there is the aging baby boomers. The baby boomers were born after world war 11 and currently they are at working age and soon to be at retirement age. The Baby boomers have improved our economy by a lot but, since they are becoming older and older they will need more support. This poses a threat to Canada but then there will be a huge drop in our economy be all of the sudden a large portion of Canada’s workers will retire. Then Canada will start to need more elderly homes and more medical care etc. The next big population issue we have in Canada is immigrants. Immigrants come to Canada

From the CBC Radio “ A recipe for Canada’s future”, it talks about the reporter’s opinion about three theories that can influence the future of Canada. The first one is that women rapidly become more powered. Society can be benefits because of the independent and energetic women. Secondly, young people, especially the indigenous young people should know the value of the institution. The young people are really bright to exploring with ideas. They are also unconventional and eager to expand their mind and their experience. Thirdly, Canada should open the door to welcome more immigrants. This place has the capacity to accept more people and it also needs more people. Because underpopulation will hurt Canada from lots of aspects, such as social

Mandatory retirement refers to an organization of the labor market that requires employees to withdraw their services at an arbitrary age and age discrimination refers to social behavior in which age categories are used for the basis of a variety of employment decisions like hiring, promoting, and firing employees (Gillin and Klassen 87). Furthermore, this article examines the health issues and poverty in the older population, and the evolution of social policies, like mandatory retirement and old age security, in Canada.

The reason behind the aging of the Canadian population can be related to three important factors. The first one is the Baby Boom Generation; these people are born between 1946 to 1966.The eldest of these population are approaching their retirement, it created a surge in the total number of aged people in Canada. The second important factor is the new life style that is present in Canada, most people postpone their marriage and many of them are not interested to start a family life.