What do you see as a future for our seniors
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Seniors
By 2025
Barbados believes that the aging population will present many socioeconomic issues for the island BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) A senior government minister on Monday said that by 2025, at least 20.4 percent of Barbados’s population will consist of older persons. Social Care Minister Steven Blackett, believes this will present many socio-economic issues for the island. Blackett, speaking at the National Societal Consultation, said that the number of people aged 60 and over was growing at an accelerated rate in comparison with other age groups, and presented issues that could not be ignored at the individual, family, organizational, and societal level. “Population aging is occurring in the context of a challenging economic climate, changing family structures, and the growing burden of chronic, non-communicable diseases and their attendant complications. The social environment can create a setting which increases the vulnerability of older persons …
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Aging Trends in Barbados
The aging of Barbadian population is unÂusual in several respects. The median population age, as discussed below, is risÂing rapidly relative to other nations, inÂcluding those of Europe and North America. Among developing countries, Barbados now has one of the highest proÂportions of older persons, with 17 percent of the population aged 55 and over and nearly 11 percent having reached or surÂpassed age 65. Both figures are considerÂably above the Caribbean average (table 1), and are due in part to a steep decline in fertility since 1970, which has lowered the proportion of population in younger age groups. At the same time, however, the number of persons aged 55 and over is declining slightly, and will remain esÂsentially unchanged in the early 1990’s. This reflects, to some extent, the aging of cohorts that have been deciÂmated by past emigration. …
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