Essay On Aging Society

Aging Society, or Aging Population, is a growing problem in the United States. The ratio of older people to younger people in the United States is growing, slowly on the young side, and faster on the older side. One of the most common and dramatic concerns and of a population is the likely increase in public costs to a government and therefore the public. As a result of older people generally being more easily able to be harmed or influenced by being more likely to experience/likely to get illness and where medical care is given by the state, then this will therefore, as a result of an increase in the amount of older people, will cause the healthcare and welfare costs to increase. If it is the former then we are likely to face even further

added/more welfare costs, as like the point above, two points of cost can be drawn that of: medical costs must be maintained for longer and simply there is more the old. Affecting me in my future in adulthood, and having to pay more for the old, and less for my family and I. Another way it would affect me in my adulthood would be an increase cost in pension, and so therefore I would have to pay more for the elderly instead of myself.

Also there would be an increase in tax because of so much need for health care and retirement funds for the elderly. Also, there would be a decrease in the Support Ratio the support ratio is defined as the ratio of dependents-people younger than 15 or older than 64-to the working-age population-those ages 15-64. This meaning less workers, and even less contributors to the tax. Now thinking about past my adult hood, and looking at my retirement there is gonna be less money for me because of all the money already in the hands of the previously retired, and probably now dead. Now it also would affect the other aspects of life such as family, economics, government, education, and religion. It affect family because heads of the family would have less money to support the family with clothes, foods, and more if the some of their own money is going towards the elders. Also it would affect economics because it would have less people buying products by companies because of less money, and most of United States are already in the lower class so imagine how much worse it would be and some middle class people would also even go to the lower

class. Government is affected as I mentioned because government is paying for health funds, and retirement for the elderly so money is a big things in most of these groups. Also educational funds may even have budget cut because of recent funds going into retirement and health funds for the elderly. Now not really a lot going into religion, but I believe the problem that would be in religion is that less money being donated by people at church, and less funding and loans for churches. Many things would go down if the elderly rate keeps going up. At the end of the day it is our fault, and we need some way to have some kind of population control, but not as bad as china.