Sir John Arbuthnott said one of biggest challenges was in the ageing population and the support required for this.
Its growth has been slowing for some time because of the ageing population.
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The ageing population and squeeze on council budgets have led councils to impose stricter criteria on who can get help.
Measures, including the compulsory contribution plan are being brought in to try and meet the challenges the ageing population would pose.
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But the UN and a charity that also contributed to the report, HelpAge International, say the ageing population is being widely mismanaged.
It has been clear for years that the ageing population will put huge strain on both Medicare and Medicaid, yet nothing has been done.
And even if this is changing with the important advocacy of people like Dame Joan Bakewell, the ageing population is still seen as a problem.
It means despite the ageing population the numbers getting help has actually fallen in the past five years, leaving an estimated one million without any help.
The ageing population and growth in chronic conditions, things like heart disease and dementia, means the health service has found itself having to manage patients rather than cure them.
While the health service is getting small rises in its budget, many argue that costs from issues such as the ageing population and lifestyle factors including obesity outstrip these increases.
The cost of providing health services is growing - by about 3% a year because of factors like the ageing population, cost of new drugs and lifestyle issues like obesity.
The ageing population and advances in medicine mean more and more people are living with chronic long-term conditions, such as heart disease and dementia, for which there is no cure.
Factors like the ageing population, rising price of drugs and lifestyle issues such as obesity means costs are outstripping the small rises the health service is getting in its budget.
And it comes at a time when demand is growing from factors such as the ageing population, development of new treatments and rise in conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.
But much of the projections made by this committee and other bodies that have looked at the issue of the ageing population assume old age automatically means an individual becomes a burden.
If the NHS does not become more productive it will simply have to cut what it does to cope with the rising demand from factors such as the ageing population and obesity.
While the health budget is increasing in the coming years, many experts say this is not happening fast enough to keep pace with rising costs from factors such as the ageing population and obesity.
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Mr Neil highlighted the impact of the credit crunch on the budget, Scotland's ageing population, the rise in population and the increase of people living on their own on housing.
Because of the global population ageing, the number and burden of strokes will increase.
Consequently, the ageing Australian population may still not be saving enough for retirement.
The DUP's Alex Easton highlighted the increasing ageing population and focused on statistics which suggest that one in ten people will be aged 75 or over by 2030.
The DUP's Alex Easton highlighted the increasing ageing population and focused on statistics which suggest that one in 10 people will be aged 75 or over by 2030.
That is a stunning difference, accounted for almost entirely by the dramatic ageing of the European population.
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Martin Baily and Jacob Kirkegaard of the Peterson Institute in Washington, DC, reckon that raising actual EU retirement ages to the official age would offset the impact of an ageing population over the next 20 years.
With 17.4% of Croatia's population over the age of 64, Croatia's ageing population and the impact that has on everything from pensions to creativity is a huge problem for the future.
The world needs to do more to prepare for the impact of a rapidly ageing population, the UN has warned - particularly in developing countries.
While the hard right fretted over the rules of succession, however, many Japanese focused on some of the bigger worries facing the country, such as the economic slump, a rapidly ageing population and the perennial travails of Japan's working women.
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Concerns were raised in March over the financial pressure an ageing population would put on services in the island.
He said that considering the challenges of an ageing population, these are changes that the government - across the UK - can't afford to ignore.
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