As a result of advances in medical care, average life expectancy is increasing for men and women, Do you think most people will see this as a positive development? What are the disadvantages of an ageing population for individuals and society? Support your point of view with reasons and/or examples from your own experience or observations.
The average life expectancy has gone up, due to medical advances. This brings many issues with it, mostly financial and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
As birth rates all over the world have gone up and death rates have been steadily declining and imbalance has been created, leaving the world overpopulated. many ailments that simply didn't exist in the last century have now suddenly cropped up due to our increased lifespan. Contribution towards social health care will have to increase to accommodate this phenomenon. I've noticed over the past 10 years that medication for more and more illnesses aren't included in the "free" part of the public health system any more, and personal contributions have gone up.
In addition, the stereotype is that the elderly can't work, and this thinking will almost certainly be perpetuated in the workplace; this has (and will) put an enormous strain on benefits systems, as the work force will once again have to pay up. This has made the current recession very difficult to manage, as the majority of people have little disposable income left, ad cannot afford to contribute more to the welfare state, myself included.
Lastly, housing will become an even bigger problem that it is, as younger people generally don't mind living in shared accommodation, whereas the elderly prefer not to. The only exception is when they live in care homes, due to physical restraints. This has effected me personally: when I wanted my own space, it was almost impossible to receive a house from the council as most of them were earmarked for the retired.
In conclusion, the increased life expectancy is creating massive problems globally.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, lastly, so, whereas, in addition, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.5418719212 85% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 6.10837438424 115% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 8.36945812808 84% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 5.94088669951 101% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 20.9802955665 95% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 31.9359605911 103% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.75862068966 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1424.0 1207.87684729 118% => OK
No of words: 279.0 242.827586207 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10394265233 5.00649968141 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 3.92707691288 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73592472571 2.71678728327 101% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 139.433497537 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.648745519713 0.580463131201 112% => OK
syllable_count: 451.8 379.143842365 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.6157635468 130% => OK
Article: 4.0 1.56157635468 256% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 1.71428571429 233% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.931034482759 215% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 3.65517241379 55% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6551724138 95% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.5024630542 112% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.8839052506 50.4703680194 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.666666667 104.977214359 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.25 20.9669160288 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.66666666667 7.25397266985 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.12807881773 121% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.33497536946 112% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 6.9802955665 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 2.75862068966 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 2.91625615764 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.19759304841 0.242375264174 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.074845127857 0.0925447433944 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0482407835185 0.071462118173 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118407258611 0.151781067708 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0516569509181 0.0609392437508 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 12.6369458128 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.1260098522 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.9458128079 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 11.5310837438 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.3 8.32886699507 112% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 55.0591133005 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.94827586207 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.3980295567 108% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 72.0 Out of 90
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