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Elderly people need the same things as all other people, plus more healthcare. A LOT more. Some studies have shown that over half of a persons total lifetime he

Elderly people need the same things as all other people, plus more healthcare. A LOT more. Some studies have shown that over half of a persons total lifetime healthcare expenditures occur in their senior years Imagine you kept spending the same you do today, but stopped earning income to pay for it. Then on top of that your healthcare spend goes up an order of magnitude. Then imagine this happens to a significant portion of your fellow countrymen in a short time period

restalis 9y ago
Healthcare was one of the things I've counted as important for the elderly people, I don't understand why you deemed necessary to repeat me on this. If it was to put the proportion in prospective, then whatever amount is necessary, the government already pays A LOT of it. When it's the government who pays, it doesn't make much difference for the patients if they begin to need more of it. "Elderly people need the same things as all other people" Like what? This is where it would have been actually interesting to have something meaningful from you, but here you're just glossing over. From what I noticed (and heard directly from elders around me) it's the other way around.
tonyedgecombe 9y ago
Do they need it as they age or in the final period of their life? If it's the later then it isn't really a problem, a year of medical care at 85 isn't much different from a year at 75. On the other hand if they are consuming healthcare from 65 until the end of their life then that is a bigger problem.
- aaavl2821 9y ago
  It is both. Roughly one-third of a person's lifetime healthcare costs occur in middle age, and half occur when they are seniors. This is based on US data from 2004 but it is a large sample (almost 4M patients) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/

restalis 9y ago

Healthcare was one of the things I've counted as important for the elderly people, I don't understand why you deemed necessary to repeat me on this. If it was to put the proportion in prospective, then whatever amount is necessary, the government already pays A LOT of it. When it's the government who pays, it doesn't make much difference for the patients if they begin to need more of it. "Elderly people need the same things as all other people" Like what? This is where it would have been actually interesting to have something meaningful from you, but here you're just glossing over. From what I noticed (and heard directly from elders around me) it's the other way around.

tonyedgecombe 9y ago

Do they need it as they age or in the final period of their life? If it's the later then it isn't really a problem, a year of medical care at 85 isn't much different from a year at 75. On the other hand if they are consuming healthcare from 65 until the end of their life then that is a bigger problem.

aaavl2821 9y ago
It is both. Roughly one-third of a person's lifetime healthcare costs occur in middle age, and half occur when they are seniors. This is based on US data from 2004 but it is a large sample (almost 4M patients) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/