Baby Boomer Population In Canada

It is expected that with the baby boomers significantly using the health care dollars, the provinces and territories will end up spending 60% of their GDP on health care services which accounts to $530 billion dollars of debt ( Robson, 2001). This discrepancy will put pressure on the federal government and encourage provincial policy makers to rely more on the federal government for funding instead of finding their own way to manage their health care systems better. Population aging affects the demand for and costs of health care services, given that seniors account for about 45% of provincial/ government health care dollars (Ng,Sanmartin,Tu, Manuel, 2014, pg 15). Seniors are not only the largest user group of health care, but their hospital visits and admissions are higher than any other age group. This is merely because seniors tend to have more chronic conditions which derive them to use the health care services. Due to the health care problems that many seniors face, it is important to address the future directions in which the sustainability of the universal health care resides.

This event set up those people to create an economic growth. The many young people during 1950’s created a consumer society as the parents were forced to buy more food for the little mouths. This meant more goods and society based on buying and not so much selling. The need for goods created more jobs too. Mass production of goods added to the new great economy of Canada. If the Baby Boom didn 't happen, our modern day economy wouldn’t be what it is today.

The country’s fertility rates began to drop, and the voter demographic became older. The total number of Canadians between the age of 18 and 24 years old began to drop. Adsett states that since there were less youth, there was less of a need to cater towards them. Since the younger generation felt that the government did not care about them, they lost the need to vote which in turn made them seem even less important and more unreliable to the Canadian government. A cycle began between the government and the younger Canadian citizens that greatly affected the country’s voter population. Adsett ends her article by stating that if the number of young voters is to rise, then the government needs to “speak for all of the eligible citizens that it is supposed to represent” (Adsett,

Adults that work support the country and people who are not working. The dependency load is the people who are not working; ages 0 to 14 and over the age of 65. The dependency ratio compares the number of people not working to the number of people working. The more working people a country has, the greater the economical growth. With more money being given to the government, the effect is that the region could have better technology, transportation, healthcare, and food quality as the government has the money to buy, build, and repair. In Canada, because of our decrease in population, (figure 1.4) there future dependency load will be greater than our workforce causing economical problems. (Patterns and Trends: Although Canada’s population is decreasing over time, this could change as another “baby boom” could happen.) Since we have less people working, it will eventually cause problems such as our economy will go down. To solve a problem like this, the government could raise the taxes to keep the money going in, or increase the population by

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

Ultimately, the social changes in 1940s helped shape the country’s constitutional future. The population of black and aboriginal people increased in Canada which resulted in Canada becoming more tolerant and agreeing to accept a diversity of people . Because of this, and the many war brides, Canada experienced a "baby boom". ( Effects of WW2 on Canada) The Great Depression of the 1930s had continued the decline in Canada's birthrate. By 1946 the birth rate had jumped to 27.2, and remained between 27 and 28.5 per 1,000 inhabitants until 1959, and then

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

When boomer demand slams into the market place, prices soar (until the fad passes). Nothing stops the baby-boomer. There is somewhat of a bright side to all the spending and boomer traffic. Being just a few steps ahead of the boomer can make an individual very well off if you know which way they are headed. Boomers have always acted this way. Still the largest generation in the United States has been shifting markets ever since the diaper and baby food industries in the late 1940's (Geoffery 59-64). Construction of elementary facilities exploded for municipal budgets—Los Angeles was spending $1 million a week on new schools in the mid-1960's (Geoffery 59-64). After that happened, the boomer moved on abandoning a huge amount of those facilities. When younger boomers wanted cars, the Mustang and Camaro were considered a phenomenon and as the boomer herd passed so did the sales. Suburban homes in beautiful areas were next since boomers were doing the family thing. Prices on suburban homes exploded in the 80's and as usual; when the boomer left, so did the sales.

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,

“ No other demographic event in U.S. history-save perhaps for the staggering death toll of the Civil War-has had greater significance than the Baby Boom”(Monhollon, xiii). The late 40’s and all through the 50’s was marked the baby boom era. During this time, soldiers were returning home from the war and were extremely excited to see their families. The Great Depression had delayed the increase of births in the 1930’s, but when World War II was over families wanted to take advantage of the fact that they had finally been reunited. Women started having more children and Canada’s birth rate skyrocketed.

While the “Greatest Generation” is a title often given to those Americans who lived and died during the era of the Great Depression and World War II, their offspring, the “Baby Boom” generation, significantly shaped and improved the American landscape as well if for no greater reason than the sheer number of people who make up this population (Steinhorn, 2006). Today, based predominantly on that very same reason, the baby boomer population is now making a very different, yet equally as profound impact on American society. More

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

Born between 1946 and 1964, HBCU alumni ages 51 – 170 are classified as Baby Boomers (Fogg, 2008). During this time period, there was a boost in the U.S. birthrate, and according to History.com, this baby boom is arguably due to Americans desiring to get back to normalcy after 16 years of war and depression. Because people are living longer and the birth rate is declining in America, Baby Boomers are the fastest growing demographic (Jacobson, 2015). According to Jamie Carracher, a digital health strategist, approximately 80 million Baby Boomers became senior citizens as they turned 65 in 2011. This generation now accounts for 76.3 million people and close to 24 percent of the U.S. population. According to Fogg (2008) in the article “When Generations

Canada is experiencing a rapid growth in aging population and it is not going to slow down anytime soon. In 1851 there were about 65, 000 seniors in Canada and the number in 2014 is 5.57 million.[1] In 2036 the elders will be over ten million and by 2051 one in every four Canadians will be a senior [2].