Thursday 26 February 2015

Problem-Solution essay question

Problem-Solution essay question

People are living much longer than before. In the future, it may even be possible for people to live to 150 years old. However, this could put enormous strain on our society.

Discuss some of the problems that living to 150 may cause and suggest possible solutions to overcome them.

Write your ideas and plan on a piece of paper. When you have finished, click on the check button to compare your plan with our example. It does not matter if your plan is different to ours. The most important thing is that you have a number of good quality and well-organised ideas.

Problems

    Welfare services may be under pressure e.g. unable to pay pensions to older people
    Older people are often overlooked by governments
    Lack of medical services
    Older people’s minds need to be kept active

Solutions

    Increase retirement age e.g. require older people to work longer so that they continue to pay tax
    Create government departments that deal with issues faced by older people
    Build more hospitals that deal with health problems of older people
    Build universities to meet the needs of older people

Our brainstormed ideas have been ranked in order of importance. However, remember that ranking depends on your personal choice.

Below is a basic outline of this plan.

Problems

    welfare services e.g. cannot pay pensions
    governments overlooked older people
    lack of medical resources
    keeping mentally active

Solutions

    Increase retirement age so older people still pay tax
    government departments to help older people
    more hospitals
    universities for older people




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