Demographic Bomb Research Articles

The impact of the EN conversion programme on the NHS nursing workforce.

States that the number of enrolled nurse conversions completed during the last ten years has had a significant impact on the number of registered nurses (RNs) available for employment in the National Health Service (NHS), and the contribution made by the enrolled nurse conversion course programme to the NHS workforce may have delayed the impact of the "demographic time bomb" on nursing recruitment. Emphasizes that the winding down of the conversion programme, and a fall in the number of RNs employed in the NHS, combined with a decline in entries to preregistration (initial) training, could signal the beginning of the long-awaited crisis facing the nursing profession.

Knowledge of, and attitudes towards, the demographic time bomb

Reviews the data on changing demographic trends and predictions about their implications for human resource management (HRM) practices in the 1990s. Reports the results of a survey of 176 senior managers/personnel specialists, which assessed their knowledge of the demographic trends, and their attitudes to HRM practices which are claimed to alleviate the effects of these trends. The results reveal a considerable degree of ignorance about the nature of the demographic trends, and varying attitudes towards the importance of the practices associated with their alleviation.

New age problems.

With government fears of a looming demographic timebomb, all eyes are on the Commons Health Select Committee to provide the answers in its report this summer, as to who will be responsible for footing the bill of long-term care

Population Matters: The Local Dimension

Introduction - Tony Champion Key Population Developments and their Local Impacts Population Pyramids and Shifting Sands - Keith Dugmore Targeting Future Investments to Give the Changing British Public Their Just Deserts Migration, Places and Quality of Life - Allan Findlay and Robert Rogerson People Voting With Their Feet? The Demographic Component of Local Government Finance - Robert J. Bennett and Gunther Krebs Impacts On Resources, Needs and Budgets Population Change and Education: Schools Rolls and Rationalisation Before and After the 1988 Education Reform Act - Michael Bradford Fall-Out from the Demographic Time-Bomb - Anne Green and David Owen A Spatial Perspective On the Labour Force Effects of the "Baby-Bust" Demography and House-Building Needs - Dave King A Critique of the "Demographic Bulldozer" Scenario Going Into a Home - Anne Corden and Ken Wright Where Can an Elderly Person Choose? Healthy Indications? Applications of Census Data In Health Care Planning - John Mahon Making Waves? The Contribution of Ethnic Minorities to Local Demography - Vaughan Robinson

Only five years to go

Do you remember the demographic time bomb? A few years ago it was recognized that past birth patterns and current employment patterns could result in a mismatch of jobs and available workers. Organizations were urged to consider ways of recruiting people who would otherwise not come into certain kinds of employment. At the same time, Opportunity 2000 was launched as a means of promoting the employment and development of women.

Employment Opportunities for 'Women Returners': A Comparison of Britain's 'Demographic Time Bomb' and the Ageing of the Australian Population

Employment Opportunities for 'Women Returners': A Comparison of Britain's 'Demographic Time Bomb' and the Ageing of the Australian Population

The "Demographic Timebomb" and How Some Hospitality Employers are Responding to the Challenge. Rosemary Lucas and Lucy Jeffries. International Journal of Hospitality Management, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 323-38. Pergamon Press, 395 Saw Mill River Road, Elsmford, NY 10523. £130.00 annual subscription

The "Demographic Timebomb" and How Some Hospitality Employers are Responding to the Challenge. Rosemary Lucas and Lucy Jeffries. International Journal of Hospitality Management, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 323-38. Pergamon Press, 395 Saw Mill River Road, Elsmford, NY 10523. £130.00 annual subscription

Leading from the front

The demographic time-bomb coupled with PREP and Project 2000 has led BUPA Health Services to appoint its first nurse consultant in education and practice. Norah Casey talks to Jean Bailey

Prior experience plays a part in nursing strategy.

Assessment of prior experiential learning should form part of any strategy to combat the effects of the demographic time bomb on nursing, according to Norman Evans, Director of the Learning from Experience Trust, a group set up to help people make maximum use of their knowledge and skills.

The ‘demographic timebomb’ and how some hospitality employers are responding to the challenge

The phrase ‘demographic timebomb’ has taken on the aura of a shibbholeth and that everyone knows they ought to be fearful about. But is it really understood and what needs to be done? This article seeks to answer these questions and to shed some light on the employment strategies being developed by some British hospitality employers to counteract the demographic changes of the 1990s. As a result, some of the myth that the hospitality industry is lagging behind other industries can be dispelled but other findings support popular testimony that the industry faces special problems.

Skills Mismatch and Policy Response

Skills shortages and skills mismatch in Britain have intensified recently. Explanations for these problems from central government have tended to be only partial. Some of the basic tenets of offical explanations are subject to closer scrutiny, especially the notion of a demographic time-bomb. An alternative analytical framework is outlined.

A Comparative Analysis of the Job Opportunities Offered to Hotel and Catering Graduates

The “demographic time bomb” will have implications for all industries, especially in the recruitment of graduates. This situation is explored with reference to the hotel and catering industry in the UK. Research carried out into the job opportunities for graduates in this sector of industry is reported with regard to the types of job package offered; training; levels of responsibility and career prospects; salary and fringe benefits. It was found that the packages offered exhibit similarities and differences when compared with those offered by other industries and concludes that the present situation in the hotel and catering industry may have arisen from a failure to regard itself as competing in the wider graduate labour market.

Shades of Grey – the Demographic Timebomb

The probable effect of an ageing population on the recruitment of employees in the car rental business is examined. Fewer young people will be coming forward. Older workers and women may fill the gap but new patterns of employment may be needed: both full‐time and part‐time, job sharing and second careers. Productivity targets and insurance and pension costs may need to be adjusted but older employees, in particular, can be more disciplined and loyal and bring with them a wealth of talent and experience.

Demographic time bomb

I recently had a letter published in the nursing press in which I invited working mothers who felt that they needed support to write to me. I was astonished by the response.

Nursing as a career

Nurse wastage and 'demographic time bombs' have made recruitment a major topic of debate, both inside and outside the profession. In these two articles, different aspects of the problem are considered. First, Shirley Hall describes a survey of career intentions of sixth form students. In the second article Barbara Jarman looks at the influence of learner nurses' training experience on recruitment to theatre

THE IMPACT OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE ON GRADUATES' CAREERS

In the past few months in Britain, an unprecedented interest has been shown by The Government in the promotion of new opportunities for women to enter or re‐enter the labour market in the 1990‘s. This relatively sudden renewal of interest in equal opportunities derives from the anticipated reduction of labour supply of young people in the 1990’s. As Mr. John Patten, Home Office Minister colourfully argued “a demographic time bomb (is) ticking away under employers”(1). Due to a fall in the birth rate, the number of school leavers will fall by between 20% and 25% from 1991–1995(2).

The Demographic Revolution

The time is the greatest social shift since the Industrial Revolution. The shortfall of nearly a million young people available for work will cause a radical rethinking of all aspects of our lives from work and education to family, social and financial matters. The book poses such crucial questions as: can the family survive?, what will education mean in the 21st century?, can men avoid becoming the redundant male? and will euthanasia be legalized? Jane McLoughlin reveals why the birthrate changed, how we were left unprepared, and the effects on us personally and at work. Finally she argues that far from being a potential disaster, the demographic time bomb could be a superb opportunity to alter our working lives for the better.