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| More than just a question of numbers | | Author(s) | Yves Carrière |
| Journal title | GRC News, vol 17, no 2, August 1998 |
| Pages | pp 3-5 |
| Keywords | Demography ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Social policy ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Canada's population aged 65+ is likely to increase from about 3.7 million in 1996, to almost 10 million in 2041, while the proportion of the age 65+ population will increase from around 12% to more than 20% over the same period. The author argues that how convinced we are of the solutions and alternatives that are being proposed to alleviate the challenges facing our ageing society, is basically determined by how much we believe that demography is the driving force behind the solvency of social programmes. This belief in demographic analysis needs to be accompanied by more analysis of the intergenerational and intragenerational heterogeneity of the older population, which is too often portrayed as an overly homogenous population group. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980902206 A |
| Classmark | S8: TOB: TM2: 7S |
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