Around the world, people are now living longer than ever before in the past. Some say an ageing population creates problems for governments. Others believe there are benefits to society having more elderly people.To what extent do the advantages of possessing an ageing population outweigh the disadvantages?
The life expectancy of people around the world has surged drastically in the past few years. Some say that increasing octogenarians may pose a burden on governments while others think it would benefit the society. I believe this population raise can have both positive and negative outcomes depending on several factors, and in this essay I will explore these two aspects.
Certainly, when the elderly are around, there can be many benefits for the community. One key positive outcome is their influence on young children. Their life long experiences are very helpful in dealing with children. Another point to mention is that they are well versed with cultural knowledge and can instill the same wisdom is their progeny. For instance, in countries like India with an eclectic culture, elderly in the house plays a very important role when it comes to performing any ritual or providing insight regarding such customs. However, sometimes taking care of them can disrupt the finances of a household and this can be burgeoning. Medication alone costs a fortune, in certain cases, and these financial constraints may further hamper the future of the children of the family.
There are, however, legitimate concerns when it comes to the responsibilities that the government has to take up. Firstly, the medical facilities and old-age homes will become rampant. As a result, state officials will have to channel their funds in maintaining these caregiving institutes rather that spending on other beneficial projects. Secondly, there will be an imbalance in government reserves. This is because of the one-sided influx of income due to relative reduction in earning group and consequently decreasing tax payers. Taking example of European countries, where the economy has disrupted due to fewer young people and so they are developing programs to attract immigrants to take up jobs in their country.
In conclusion, I believe that although there are various pros of having old people around, the cons cannot be overlooked. Not only for government, but also for family their existence can create problems which are hard to deal with in the long run.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, firstly, however, if, look, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, well, while, as to, for instance, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1809.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 346.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22832369942 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76266867366 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.621387283237 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 572.4 506.74238477 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.3495337008 49.4020404114 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.5 106.682146367 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2222222222 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.16666666667 7.06120827912 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.186359522551 0.244688304435 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.054011987009 0.084324248473 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0530913715602 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123926384011 0.151304729494 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0601758877426 0.056905535591 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.64 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 78.4519038076 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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