A Statistics Canada 2016 Census mailer sits on the key board of a laptop after arriving in the mail at a residence in Ottawa, May 2, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean KilpatrickRaina, the scientific director of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging, points to the difference between complex movements a young person can do compared to the simpler motions of an older person because of how the body weakens over time.
By the time the 2016 census rolled around, the ranks of Canada's seniors over age 65 had for the first time outnumbered the nation's youth 14 years of age and younger. "This is some of the realization the research community and the policy-makers are having — maybe not the politicians as yet — but that just looking at the birth age or chronological age is not going to be a good indicator of determining what happens," he said.
The pace of aging nationally is expected to jump through to 2031 when the youngest baby boomers turn 65 — the oldest would have hit 85 — and Canada's proportion of seniors rivals levels that peer nations like Japan encountered five years ago. The vast majority of seniors won't live in such a facility, which Raina said has implications for community planning so people can age at home.
A new data point on the census will come from a revamped short-form question about gender, providing details on transgender and non-binary populations.
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