Market Knowledge
- Seniors living in Asia
- General population growth
- General rise in affluence
- Increasing lifespan of elders
- Increasing predominance of dual income families
- Increasing education of women in the household Seniors living in Asia
- Seniors living in Indonesia
- Seniors living in Indonesia
Indonesia is getting:
- Older
- Wealthier
- Living longer
- More afflicted by Western lifestyle diseases
- Families are getting smaller
- More dual income families
The solution? To outsource the age old responsibility of caring for ones elders by paying for a premium retirement living community lifestyle that is nonetheless close to the family.
Between 1967 and 1991 the total fertility rate in Indonesia feil from 5.605 to 3.022. 2. Fertility decline came about primarily as a result of the rise in the (female) age at marriage and high levels of contraceptive acceptance (Djuhari 1993:261-4).
Life expectancy at birth
total population: 71.05 years
male: 68.53 years
female: 73.69 years (2010 est.)
According one of the world’s most respected medical journals, The Lancet, around 30 percent of the deaths in Southeast Asian countries could be attributed to NCDs and afflicted the productive 15-to-59 age group. non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, high blood pressure, heart problems and diabetes. Deaths from NCDs in Indonesia are projected to increase by 21 percent over the next 10 years.
Data released by the Health Ministry in 2007 showed that 12.5 million people, or 5.7 percent of the nation’s population, were suffering from the disease. The figure is expected to almost double to 21 million cases by 2030.
Fertility rate has dropped from 5.9 children in 1965 compared to 2.3 in 1999