Ageing

The ageing of Australia must be considered when determining appropriate immigration levels and government policy for a sustainable population, a new report says.

Population aging is an impressive achievement that has greatly improved the quality and length of human life. However, it will require sometimes-painful social and economic adjustments to the expected future demographic realities, as Joseph Chamie, former director of the UN Population Division, explains.

Perhaps aging of the population is not so bad after all!

Bernard Salt arguing that we need to grow in order to support future pensioners. see: http://www.population.org.au/index.php/population/policy/524-panel-discu... with a quote from Nick Minchin: "We all know that the ageing of the population is not amenable to change by dint of the immigration policy because immigrants by and large come in at an age profile not dissimilar to the current profile of the Australian economy."

United Nations Population Facts Department of Economic and Social Affairs * Population Division No. 2010/4

United Nations Population Facts Department of Economic and Social Affairs * Population Division No. 2010/3

Nurses have rejected Labor's $739 million aged-care package, declaring it will make a bad situation even worse because there is no new funding for additional nurses. The package includes funding for 5000 aged-care places and millions for additional GP care for the elderly.

A new aged-care funding package will tackle "pressure points" in the system, and look to expand it for the future, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says. Mr Rudd today outlined the $739 million, four-year plan in Brisbane. In a statement, the government said the plan was the base for further structural reforms, and flagged a future announcement on aged care nurses.

An ageing population, escalating pressures in the health system and climate change pose long-term challenges for Australia's economic growth, living standards and government finances. The Treasury's Long Term Demographic and Economic projects for Australia 1st February 2010

AS debate continues over the impact of an ageing population following the release of the Federal Government’s intergenerational report, a North Coast council has already begun planning how to care for and tap into the benefits of an older population. The Coffs Coast Advocate, Kira Love 22-02-2010