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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:750-753
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Symposium Theme: Ageing

Misconceptions and misapprehensions about population ageing

Ellen M Gee

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada. E-mail: gee@sfu.ca

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The last decade has seen the emergence of neo-liberal policies and agendas, and a parallel dismantling of the public provision of health and social services and programmes in most western countries. This neo-liberalism represents an endorsement of, or at the very least an accommodation to, the primacy of the individual and his/her efforts to ensure his/her own well-being, and a corresponding de-emphasis of conceptualizations of, and commitments to, shared risk, rights of citizenship, and the common good. Population ageing has played a fundamental role in this transition; the public costs of population ageing—particularly regarding health care and pensions—are purported to be unsustainable without considerable welfare state ‘reform’. Reform is of course a process, and it has taken differing shapes in various western countries. I focus on North America, and particularly Canada, examining the links between reform and (mis)perceptions about population ageing, concentrating on the latter.

In the last few years, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Dimensions of ‘population ageing as crisis’ thinking

The (un)certainty of demographic projections

Reliance on dependency ratios

Homogenization of the elderly population

‘Common sense’: ageing and public health care costs

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