TY - BOOK ID - 30509569 TI - Growing old in an older Brazil : implications of population ageing on growth, poverty, public finance and service delivery AU - Gragnolati, Michele AU - World Bank. PY - 2011 SN - 1283292653 9786613292650 0821388037 0821388029 PB - Washington D.C. : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Older people KW - Old age assistance KW - Aging KW - Economic aspects KW - Age KW - Ageing KW - Senescence KW - Aged KW - Aging people KW - Elderly people KW - Old people KW - Older adults KW - Older persons KW - Senior citizens KW - Seniors (Older people) KW - Old age benefits KW - Physiological effect KW - Developmental biology KW - Gerontology KW - Longevity KW - Age factors in disease KW - Age groups KW - Persons KW - Gerontocracy KW - Old age KW - Economic assistance, Domestic KW - Supplemental security income program UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30509569 AB - Brazil is in the middle of a profound socioeconomic transformation driven by demographic change. Because of profound changes in mortality and, especially, fertility over the past four decades the population at older ages then begun to increase, a trend that will become more and more rapid as time progresses. While it took more than a century for France's population, aged 65 and above, to increase from 7 to 14 percent of the total population, the same demographic change will occur in the next two decades in Brazil (between 2011 and 2031). The elderly population will more than triple within the ER -