HLTHAGE 2F03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Marginal Cost, Medicalization, Dialysis
25 Apr 2018
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Meeting the diverse needs of seniors could significantly increase overall expenditure on healthcare (aka. Healthcare costs/spending) per capita spending on the rest of the population. Per capita public spending for those aged 65+ is already almost 5x greater than. Water volume increases where ground is higher. When it comes to aging population, assumes that the age profile (average cost per person of a given age) will remain constant between 2013 to 2050. Oecd 2001: increase in public health care spending in canada by 4% of gdp increase in taxes by approx. Taxes = 40% of gdp in canada today. Declining fertility rates many seniors will have no family members to provide care; but, although fertility has fallen, women who enter into old age at the beginning of the. 21st century less likely to be childless than women in preceding cohorts. There are differences amongst seniors themselves (ie. , institutionalized vs. not)
