To Prepare:

Using the Walden Library, locate journal articles and demographic resources that profile different countries’ rates of citizen dependency. Examine two different countries’ demographic populations, and find one with a high rate of dependency and one with a low rate of dependent citizens.

BY DAY 3

Post by Day 3 three demographic and/or citizen dependency differences between the two countries you have chosen, that you believe will impact the lives of aging citizens. Explain how you predict they will do so.

Required Readings

· Kunkel, S. R., & Settersten, Jr., R. A. (2022). Aging, society, and the life course (6th ed.). Springer.

· Chapter 3, “An Aging World” (pp. 51–75)

· Topical Essay, “iElders” (pp. 162–162)

· Buffel, T., McGarry, P., Phillipson, C., De Donder, L., Dury, S., De Witte, N., & … Verté, D. (2014). Developing age-friendly cities: Case studies from Brussels and Manchester and implications for policy and practice.Links to an external site. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 26(1/2), 52–72.

· Hongtu, C., Levkoff, S., & Kleinman, A. (2014). Contextual knowledge: From globalization to global aging.Links to an external site. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 39(2), 141–158.

· Fealy, G., McNamara, M., Treacy M. P., & Lyons, I. (2012). Constructing ageing and age identities: A case study of newspaper discourses.Links to an external site. Ageing & Society, 32(1), 85–102.

· Fitzgerald, K. G., & Caro, F. G. (2014). An overview of age-friendly cities and communities around the world.Links to an external site. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 26(1/2), 1–18.

· Lundgren, A. S., & Ljuslinder, K. (2011). ”The baby-boom is over and the ageing shock awaits”: Populist media imagery in news-press representations of population ageing.Links to an external site. International Journal of Ageing & Later Life, 6(2), 39–71.