New data reveals Canada’s senior population is expected to exceed 11 million people by 2043. This rapid rise in the number of older Canadians will have wide-reaching implications on sectors such as health care and employment, with experts sounding the alarm that Canada is not prepared to handle an aging population.

  • Octospider@lemmy.one
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    11 months ago

    They will reap what they sowed. They had housing, cheap education, high paying jobs, and they created a society that gave none of it to future generations. We can’t provide for the aging population? We can’t even provide for the younger generations.

    • Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      The people who will be old in 2043 are middle aged now. Sure as fuck we didn’t get those things…

    • nyan@lemmy.cafe
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      11 months ago

      You’re confusing the Boomers, who are currently tipping over the line into seniorhood if they haven’t already (the last of them will turn sixty-five around 2030) with Gen-Xers like me, who had to navigate a somewhat different landscape. We didn’t get the high-paying jobs or the cheap anything—that all went to our parents’ generation instead. So what were we supposed to do, invent a time machine so that we could go back and unsnarl the seeds of the future economy?