During the next five decades, Western populations will inexorably get older. Even if other phenomena are taken for granted, the lower the fertility, the more the aging process will be accentuated. One can expect large increases in public health costs and pension benefits that tax payers will...

This paper projects annual growth rates between 2001 and 2031 in the need for informal and formal support among elderly Canadians with disabilities. The paper also discusses the policy implications of the increasing demand for informal caregivers. Using Statistics Canada's LifePaths...