Population aging, its impact on the development of the Granma province (Review)

Abstract

Growing old is one of the irreversible tendencies of population which is present in modern societies in one way or another. This tendency affects, and it will also affect in the future to a greater extent, the economic, scientific, political, social, educative, technological, cultural and health dynamics of the nations which prefigure, above all, a shape change regarding conceptions and implementation of the development. Towards 2025, according to estimated values, Cuba will be the most aged country of Latin America and the Caribbean and it will be the second aged country from all Americas, after Canada. In this scene, the research regarding the impact due to the population’s growing old in Granma of Province’s development is decisive, as it permits to adopt preventive, corrective and retroactive measures which make possible to direct or guide the ageing process as an opportunity for the local development and not as a problem of incalculable consequences for the sustainable levels of development obtained in our territory. This article analyses, in a brief way, the population’s growing old impact in the development of the province, issue which requires the participation of the Granma’s scientific community, especially by the university investigators, since the university of the province constitutes a scenery of the ageing process that are now taking place.