Senior Population Analysis

Canada 's population is aging, and the demographics of Canadian population are shifting so that senior citizens will form an increasingly larger percentage of the population. With this growing senior population comes an increase in health care costs, pension costs and social services provided for seniors. The thesis is that the rapid growing of the senior population will present a strain in our health care system. The intention of this paper is to explain how this ballooning population of the senior demographic will cause great societal change, and strain on Canada 's governmental finances. I will discuss in detail how the costs of social services will increase in specific areas, and why the Canadian economy will likely be ill equipped to …show more content…
Marier pointed out in his 2013 research that at the time of his writing, the province of Saskatchewan actually had no strategy which considered the specific challenges of the ageing population. In the same research, Marier pointed out that a huge portion of Canada 's seniors live in rural areas, which will make the administration of health care and social services costly and challenging. I will also point out how Remie (2013) outlined that lower fertility rates as compared to prior generations. The birth rate in Canada is currently less than 1.4 children per couple. I will use this information to establish in a few paragraphs, one point per paragraph, that Canada is ill equipped to deal with this challenge related to the ageing …show more content…
I will discuss the issues and implications of this issue in a separate paragraph. I will also give the example of a senior having a heart attack in a remote rural area, and the implication would be that he or she would almost certainly die as an ambulance would likely take far too long to arrive, and the drive or air ambulance to the nearest hospital would take too much time, and the patient would likely lose his or her