American aging population makes up a substantial social challenge. These social problems will increase significantly over the next 50 years. Single, divorced, or widowed women as well as members of racial minorities are particularly dangerous to draining chronic health problems, poverty, and unmet health and social needs as they are aging. (more…)

Not only that the low birth rate leads directly to the aging population, a purely arithmetic on the number of young people, and economic and political context of these developments will strengthen the relationship. The traditional family-based between generations is not possible if we put more people involved (mostly women, will not survive longer than men), most with fewer children. Many countries face this problem in the world, and raise taxes on households of working age to pay for new programs for the aging population. (more…)

Spanning twenty-seven independent countries, the populations represent all possible situations in which people aging. The speed and extent of aging is also high in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The remaining countries (Turkmenistan and Tajikistan in Central Asia, was the northern border of Iran and Afghanistan) are only less than 4 percent of people age over 65 years old. More than 40 percent were children under fifteen years. For every person age sixty-five or older, these countries had 10 kids under 15 years old. (more…)