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Further, with the elderly population quickly growing, it’ll become even more expensive as inflation grows, services become more expensive, and worst of all, sup
by spacephysics 4y ago
Further, with the elderly population quickly growing, it’ll become even more expensive as inflation grows, services become more expensive, and worst of all, supply for these services goes down (nurses, at home care workers, etc)
If a family has the means and the funds, I believe the money would be better spent building a small “guest house” on the adults properties for their parents to live in, than to a nursing home. Or perhaps have a nurse visit every so often for certain services.
Much of Asian culture never grew far from this notion of parents living at home in old age
- vishnugupta 4y ago+1. To add, vast majority of senior care requires trained, skilled, and empathetic human human labor. This can't be automated and so this challenge is only going to increase (and supply going down as you have rightly pointed) as demographics shift.
- mkoubaa 4y agoIf GPT takes your white collar job theyre always hiring at old folks homes
- emodendroket 4y agoMost of this is a bunch of value statements I’m not bothering with but the last paragraph is false.