Nowadays people are living longer after they retire. What are the problems caused by this? What measures can be taken to address such problems?
As the life expectancy of people around the world is increasing, there are a number of issues resulting from this
phenomenon. This essay will identify such problems and propose solutions to address such concerns.
The major problem associated with people living longer into their retirement years is that of the financial burden
on the state. Most countries will provide some basic pension to its elderly citizens and, as people live longer,
this results in a greater cost to taxpayers who have to fund these pension payments.
A way to solve this problem would be for a government to increase the age of retirement. In doing this, fewer
pension payments would need to be made and, as people stay in the workforce for longer, more taxes will be
raised as a result. My country is currently considering raising the retirement age from 67 to 70 in a bid to save
money and raise more taxes.
Another challenge which is posed by most nations is the impact of the elderly on healthcare. The advances in
medicine have allowed people to enjoy longer lifespans but this has also resulted in a greater need for these
older citizens to access basic healthcare. It is common for older people to suffer more from general medical
ailments which need to be addressed more frequently than younger people, thus resulting in greater expense
to the government.
To address this issue, governments could encourage citizens to invest in private healthcare insurance to cover
the costs of these additional doctor or hospital visits. Many nations adopt this policy already and I believe this
may become commonplace in the future.
The older a population becomes, the greater the pressure it places on a nations finances. Governments need to
think of practical solutions to solve the issues caused by increased life expectancy.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, thus, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1534.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 301.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09634551495 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64690454784 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 176.041082164 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558139534884 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 477.9 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.7359580281 49.4020404114 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.571428571 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.92857142857 7.06120827912 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 18.0 4.38176352705 411% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.236271811438 0.244688304435 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0833316540305 0.084324248473 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0664294975298 0.0667982634062 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0694750772469 0.151304729494 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0654755770839 0.056905535591 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 78.4519038076 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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