{"id":7721,"date":"2025-06-28T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/population-ageing-and-the-politics-of-demographic-alarmism-implications-for-the-nursing-profession\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:05:08","slug":"population-ageing-and-the-politics-of-demographic-alarmism-implications-for-the-nursing-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/population-ageing-and-the-politics-of-demographic-alarmism-implications-for-the-nursing-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Population ageing and the politics of demographic alarmism: implications for the nursing profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>Population ageing and the politics of demographic alarmism: implications for the nursing profession<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/www.ajan.com.au\/index.php\/AJAN\/article\/view\/1767' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/www.ajan.com.au\/index.php\/AJAN\/article\/download\/1767\/499' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Objectives: This article provides a brief examination of the prejudices and politics framing current public debate on population ageing in Australia and the possible implications of this for the allocation of required health and social sector resources. The role and responsibility of nurses and professional nursing organisations to engage in and influence public policy debate concerning the health and social care of older people is highlighted.<br \/>\nSetting: Australia.<br \/>\nSubjects: Australia\u2019s ageing population and succeeding generations over the next 40 years.<br \/>\n Primary argument: According to the Australian government, population ageing in Australia is poised to cause unmanageable chaos for the nation\u2019s public services. The cost of meeting the future health and social care needs of older Australians is predicted to be unsustainable. Officials argue that government has a stringent responsibility to ration current and future resources in the health and social care sector, cautioning that if this is not done, the nation\u2019s public services will ultimately collapse under the strain of the everincreasing demands placed on these services by older people. This characterisation of population ageing and its consequences to the nation\u2019s social wellbeing may however be false and misleading and needs to be questioned.<br \/>\nConclusion: The nursing profession has a fundamental role to play in ensuring responsible debate about population ageing and contributing to public policy agenda setting for the effective health and social care of Australia\u2019s ageing population.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Megan-Jane Johnstone<\/li>\n<li>Olga Kanitsaki<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>population ageing, public policy, social justice, advocacy, nurses, Australia<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: Population ageing and the politics of demographic alarmism: implications for the nursing profession Original&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[5045,3975,3894,5044,2865,1350],"class_list":["post-7721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-advocacy","tag-australia","tag-nurses","tag-population-ageing","tag-public-policy","tag-social-justice","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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