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Sadly, the elderly is the forgotten demography. Only the family (not always) cares about them. Everybody, one day, will be part of it.
by edpichler 3y ago
Sadly, the elderly is the forgotten demography. Only the family (not always) cares about them.
Everybody, one day, will be part of it.
- smabie 3y agoI mean if someone dies young they won't be part of it
- m_fayer 3y agoA large number of people living for many years with sharply reduced physical and mental capacity, retaining theoretical "autonomy", and mostly cared for by the medical-care-industrial-complex as opposed to family and community - all this is an accidental abomination created by modern medicine and economics. As a society and species this is new to us, and I doubt we will ever figure out a way to treat such a class of people humanely. It's just too big a challenge.
- Ekaros 3y agoAnd more realistically how long we can afford to treat them humanely. I think we were in rather special place in recent decades. Where working population was high enough. Moving forward things are only getting worse in most developed countries.