people aged and over are expected to make up about of the population in metropolitan areas of the population in inland areas and of the population in coastal areas in productivity commission with older people often experiencing multiple chronic conditions this suggests the need for health care will grow some of this need will be in areas with insufficient services to meet the demand for health care associated with ageing this is compounded by a maldistribution in the health workforce the country has dealt with this situation with a heavy reliance on overseastrained doctors and government policy has directed them to areas of need