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In many countries, people are now living longer than ever before. Some people say an ageing population creates problems for governments. Other people think there are benefits if society has more elderly people. To what extent do the advantages of having an ageing population outweigh the disadvantages? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge pr experience. Write at least 250 words.

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Ageing
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 population is a problem for other countries, but for
another
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other ones
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one
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 it brings
benefit
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benefits
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 to
have
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having
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 elderly
people
. There are more advantages and
disadvantage
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disadvantages
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 to
have
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having
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 more elderly
people
to
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in
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 society and
to
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in
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country
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the country
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. There are several reasons to have
advantage
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the advantage
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 of having elderly
people
.
For instance
, they do not have useless. They live in comfort, they can do everything without demanding. So, today almost every
adults
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look
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looks
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more
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younger than
that
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in that
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 century. Because
,
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apply
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 they live
like
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apply
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their own life without carrying. So, mostly we don't have problems with carrying them. Elderly
people
 can give
advises
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for
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to
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young
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the young
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 generation,
such
 as
for
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to
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government
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the government
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. Because they have seen too
much
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many
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 problems with society, like poverty and inequality of gender and other. So they can give
advise
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 to not have
such
 problems and solve them, if we would have. So
that
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, if
government
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the government
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 listens them, what to do, perhaps
country
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the country
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 would be able to develop
fastly
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fast
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.
Also
,
mostly
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apply
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many countries have
young
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a young
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 generation without parents,
with
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for
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 any
reasons
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reason
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. In
this
 case, their grandparent
look
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 after them and will their parents. It means that, if there are more adults, we would not have babies, who don't have family. It would be better to improve the quality of family and for children. In conclusion, there are more advantages of having
old
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an older
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 generation in every country. So, they bring more benefits and
useful
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are useful
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 for society.
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