MINDSET FOR IELTS 3 UNTI 2 WRITING
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Look at the list of ideas. In pairs or groups, brainstorm and make notes on
advantages and disadvantages for each, based on the subject of health.
1 Living in a busy city
2 Increased life expectancy in many societies
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Summarise:
1. Continued economic productivity
We find examples of the economic activity of older adults in all parts of the world. For example, farming in developing countries is increasingly dominated by older workers, and a significant proportion of global food comes from small-holdings managed by older people, including many women.Worldwide, an estimated 450 million small-scale farms support a population of roughly 2.2 billion people and represent 85 per cent of all the world’s farms.Evidence from a number of developing countries shows that farm workforces are ageing rapidly: some 70 per cent of farmers in Mozambique, and 80 per cent in Indonesia are already over the age of 45.It is essential that we recognise this, as evidence from Thailand suggests older farmers continue to play an important role in adopting new technology and cropping patterns, given the right support.
2. Many older men and women remain employed
In urban areas, many older men and women remain employed in the formal labour market: half of those in their 60s in the Philippines and Vietnam; 40 per cent in Mexico and Brazil and one third in India and Thailand. In the informal labour market, there is widespread evidence from Africa, Asia and Latin America of older men and women’s ongoing productivity. A recent study from Ethiopia highlighted the labour of older men in construction, and trading; of older women as housemaids, traders and craft makers. Similarly, in India, older men often run small businesses including trading, while older women undertake domestic support work. Crucially, older adults also free up the time of younger people from household responsibilities, enabling them to undertake paid labour.
3. How older people contribute to the wider community
A recent study of community work in Asia found that more than a quarter of Indians and Taiwanese and a fifth of Filipino and Chinese men and women in their 60s and 70s regularly helped in the wider community, providing assistance to individuals of all ages. Other studies have highlighted the importance of the local knowledge and community-organising skills of older people’s associations in disaster relief efforts.
In the Philippines, older people’s associations were invaluable to implementing disaster risk reduction programmes after Typhoon Ketsana hit in 2009 and played an important part in reconstruction efforts after Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.
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