Take a look a the following three population pyramids for Italy, one from 2000 and projections for 2025 and 2050. What is the one major trend that you can determine over the course of the next 42 years? What could this trend mean for social services in Italy?
Compare this population pyramid with the one for the Dominican Republic. Image generated by the U.S. Census Bureau International Data Base
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/pyramids.html