In the developed world, average life expectancy is increasing. What problems will this cause for individuals and society? Suggest some measures that could be taken to reduce the impact of ageing populations

It is true that people's lifespan is increasing dramatically in the industrialized countries. While individuals and local communities will experience serious problems due to this alarming trend, governments can take steps to mitigate these potential problems.

Both governments and societies will face numerous problems of growing expectancy of living longer. The main issue is that more people will be of retirement age who will be eligible to receive a pension. Additionally, the proportion of younger, working adults, will be smaller, and governments will therefore receive less money in taxes in relation to the size of the population. In other words, an ageing population will mean a greater tax burden for working adults. Furthermore, pressure will rise in the demand of public and private healthcare, and young people will need to look after their elderly relatives.

There are several actions that governments could take to curb the problems described above. Firstly, a solution would be to increase the retirement age for working adults, perhaps 65 to 70. Nowadays, people of this age tend to healthy enough to continue the job. A second measure would be for governments to encourage immigration in order to increase the number of working adults who pay taxes. Finally, governments could invest money in the building of health care, accommodation and transport facilities for the growing numbers of older citizens.

In conclusion, it is clear that many problems will rise due to the growing trend of human lifespan, but both governments and individuals need to be taken steps to lessen these problems.

Votes
Average: 6.1 (1 vote)

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, look, second, so, therefore, while, in conclusion, in other words, it is true

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 7.85571142285 216% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1364.0 1615.20841683 84% => OK
No of words: 255.0 315.596192385 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34901960784 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93574924105 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 176.041082164 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.560784313725 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 415.8 506.74238477 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.522992677 49.4020404114 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.923076923 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6153846154 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.53846153846 7.06120827912 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.246547108927 0.244688304435 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0888397774365 0.084324248473 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0398080117096 0.0667982634062 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140231524939 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0396492121883 0.056905535591 70% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.04 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 78.4519038076 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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