Ageing Population and Unsustainable Costs in Health and Social Care: Contemporary Debates

Contemporary Debates

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The public of the United Kingdom has generally undergone a crucial alteration in its age
structure, with having multiple people having less children as well as the living longer lives. An
an outcome, the average age of the public of the United Kingdom is enhancing. In this, it has an
essential implication for the entire community. The enhancing as well as living within a
community where the younger people are generally at a majority is quite fundamentally unique
to enhancing up within the community where the huge amount of people are in their old age
group (Ageing: Global population, 2010). There are various older people who can face issues
with the well-being so they generally require to ensure that there are adequate high quality well-
being and care services available in order to meet the needs of every people. In the report, the
essay will cover the concept of ageing among UK population who is responsible for an
unsustainable costs within the well-being and social care as well. In this, the essay will presents
an argument against the view that the ageing is quite responsible for an unsustainable costs. In
addition to this, there is a discussion about the effective policies that has been put in place to
effectively deal with the enhancing well-being and social care costs.
MAIN BODY
The ageing of the nation's population is generally an outcome of the continued downfall
within the fertility rates as well as enhanced the expectancies of the living. Such alterations in the
demographic has outcome in enhancing the numbers as well as the proportions of the people who
are above the age of 60. as per this, the well-being profile for England report generally presents
that though the people are living a longer than various years, the people are not essentially living
the healthier lives as well. An ageing population can generally leads to the cost pressure if the
older people are more likely to improve the chronic conditions with having the various
morbidities, that are more costly to treat. Within the year 2014, the medium age of the public
within the United Kingdom can specifically exceeds 40 for the first time, up from about 34 years
within the year 1974. In this, the gradual enhancement within the life expectancy as well as an
average age that is seen during the twentieth century are generally projected to continue (Ageing
and health expenditure, 2019).
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