GEOGRAPHICAL INEQUALITIES OF AGEING IN GREECE

“The proportion of older people in a population is also related among others to the level of health and social insurance expenditures, as well as to the consumption patterns (Clark et al., 1978;Wise, 1998;Bond et al., 1993;United Nations, 1996;Balourdos et al., 1996;and Balourdos, 1997). This paper attempts to cover a significant gap in the international literature by describing the process of demographic ageing in Greece in the time period 1951-1991 and putting it in the context of the other countries in the European Union…”