You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.
I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.
If you find yourself caring for a relative with dementia, the chances are you'll need help.
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Simple numbers of people of a particular age tell us nothing about the condition of their health, the environment in which they live, and the support systems they can afford to pay for.
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