BD Social Health

 

The constant increase in life expectancy in EU during the last century and the decreasing birth rates of the last decades will cause an ageing population, which was likely to pose a medium and long-term threat to economic growth in the following years.

 This demographic change drives to important challenges for the families and persons, but also for the society and the governments. They will must adopt and coordinate social, economic and employment policies capable of meeting this challenge.

 According to Eurostat, in next decades the percentage of elder people with more than 65 years old in the world will grow up from 7.6% in 2010 to 18.3 in 2060. The expected changes have not antecedents. The developments on the demographic front offer us the prospect of adverse age pyramids.

If we focus on Europe, the extent of these changes is very important too: the percentage of population over aged 65 will be 29.5 in 2060. The most rapid changes will begin on 2015 and will continue throughout decades.

 We have ahead a new generation of dependent persons with other worries and characteristics, with another type of resources and answers. The society needs governments able to address this challenge and to develop projects with another perspective, adapting their tools and procedures to this new reality. They need entities capable of facing the great challenge of the generational change where dependents and keepers will be different.