GRN 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Baby Boomers, Population Ageing

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Gerontology
• Course: GRN 250
• Professor: Graham Rowles

Document Summary

Aging in place and dying in place. Migration (in and out) of the elderly. Migration (in and out) of the non-elderly. Aging of the baby boomers in kentucky. Increasing fertility lowers elderly concentration in an area. Decreasing mortality increases elderly concentration in an area (concentration = percentage / proportion of the population that is older) A population aging in place can increase and then decrease elderly concentration when it dies in place. Dying in place reducing the number of older people that there is. Migration (in or out) of the elderly. Florida doesn"t have the largest population of the elderly, but it does have the largest concentration of elderly people. Florida also has the largest out-migration population because elderly people travel there together and when one of them dies they get lonely and move back to where family is. Migration (in or out) of the non-elderly.