Show RANKS OF aging IN NATION IS GROWING trend means more older workers in industry new york changes in the age distribution of the population that are occurring as the immigrant portion ages soon will present a new challenge to american business management dr robert E chaddock professor of statistics in columbia university asserted declaring that older persons are increasing numerically in proportion to the rest of the population dr chaddock chaddic k estimated that the number of those over sixty five years old now about will be trebled in fifty years with the population approaching a stationary level he be asserted the general death rate soon will begin to rise burden of aged grows the period of youth in our industrial du organization is passing and our economic structure must be adapted to age changes lie he wrote institutions and agencies for the care of the aged the burden of old age pensions and the costs of dependency will increase rapidly the increasing burden of the aged upon the productive workers need not affect adversely the standard of living because the proportion of persons in the productive ages twenty to sixty four is not decreasing and the burden of support for the young dependent group is declining adaptation of the industrial structure to employ the ever increasing number of older workers forty five to sixty four will be necessary it if the high american standard of living is to be maintained dr chaddock declared otherwise an increasing number may become he warned thus increasing the total burden of support resting upon the productive workers aged in industry due to the restriction of immigration and to the aging of the foreign born here the percentage of those who immigrated to this country and are now over sixty five is twice as great as that of the native americans over sixty five dr chaddock observed the net result of all population changes he wrote is a steadily declining proportion of persons under twenty and a corresponding increase of those over forty five there is little change in the proportion of the productive group twenty to forty four the survey noted discussing the sex composition of the population dr chaddock said that the trend is toward numerical equality of the sexes among whites he noted that the proportion of people twenty to sixty four years old is much greater in the cities than in the country in the rural districts the number of children in proportion to the entire population was found greater than in the urban areas |