1. Ageing Population in the UK
Lesson Objectives;
Know why people are living longer
Understand what the impacts will be
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2. 1. Why are people living longer?
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3. Why are people living longer?
• Look at the handout and colour in each card
the following colour to represent;
Better food supply (blue)
Better health (green)
Better safety (red)
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4. Key definitions to help you!
1. Food supply A revolution in farming methods allowed the food
yields to be increased on existing lands (e.g. through fertilisers). Extra
food could be grown in remote areas as transport improved, allowing
the food to be driven to towns and cities.
2. Better health Disease prevention and cures have all improved.
Well-planned economies such as the Britain’s can provide care to the
sick through the National Health Service. Accident and Emergency
Departments provide immediate help for injured people while
immunisation against polio has led to its eradication in the UK.
3. Safety ..Education has raised public awareness of the means by
which diseases are transmitted and people now know to wash their
hands regularly. UK laws now carefully look after people’s lives
(insisting on safe food preparation in restaurants and fire exits from
buildings, to name just a couple). We live in a risk-avoiding society.
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6. Why are people living longer?
• People are living ________ today due to a
combination of three main reasons, better
health, better _______ and being more safety
conscious.
Longer, food Better, education
• _____ expectancy today is __, in 1980 It was
76.
Baby, 100 Life, 82

7. 2. What are the impacts of living
longer?
• What is it like to be old?
Watch this video
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8. Demand for "meals on
wheels" hits an all time high
in Thames Ditton.
McCarthy & Stone housing
get planning permission - 50
new sheltered homes to be
built in Esher.
Mrs Fielding is told that
there are no available places
at the local authority nursing
home for her 90 year old
father.
Gala Bingo celebrates 6th
successful year in
Wimbledon.
Kingston Community Church
offer Tea Dances at the
Surbiton Assembly Rooms.
Jack Spratt , 65, waits for the
bus to take him to his part-
time job at B & Q .
David Cameron prepares to
raise National Insurance to
pay for increased NHS
spending.
200 new jobs to be created
by Stenna Stairgate Lift
Company, at new factory in
Barton.
Mr and Mrs Brown wait 6
months for hip replacement
operation.
Kingston Social Services re-
advertise for home helps in
The Kingston Guardian.
UK faces an £800 billion
pensions shortfall.
Mr Marshall is pleased that
he can at last afford to take
retirement at 70.
It is expected that the new
budget will announce higher
taxes to pay for the increase
in pensions.
Kingston College offer IT
courses to the over 60s.
Mrs Smith from Tolworth
rushes home in her lunch
break to give her mother
medication.
Homebase DIY in New
Malden announce pensioner
discounts are a great success.
Pensioners demand new
bowling green at Balaclava
Road – Park keepers say the
playground may have to go.
Never mind the bike lanes –
what about priority for
electric buggies!!!
Mrs Martins looks forward to
Christmas dinner with her
three children and her only
grandchild.
Local MP loses his seat – “he
will not ignore the grey vote
again” says Victor.
NHS hospitals struggling to
cope with large numbers of
dementia patients.
• Read through the cards on some of
the impacts caused by an ageing
population.
• Make a larger copy of the table
below:
• Using the cards work out 4 positive
and 4 negative impacts of an ageing
population and write them into your
table.
• Can you think of any of your own?
Negative Impacts
of an ageing
population
Positive Impacts of
an ageing
population
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9. What is it like to have dementia?
Video here
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10. Your Turn!
• Design a poster showing some of the reasons
why people are living longer as well as some
of the problems that this would create.
Rise of the Pensioners!
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