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Healthy Ageing & Longevity

Submitted by rlewis on 25 June, 2008 - 16:35.
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A sure sign of a successful society is healthy ageing and longevity.

A dubious society endlessly carps on about aged sector health costs, [which are due to peak in 40 years or so and then decline rapidly, regardless].

To be able to spend on such matters is something a society should be proud of. Surely quality of life for all citizens is more important than so many other national costs?

If not quality of life, then what is the aim of our society?

Further, if such costs take 10% of the national budget for a few years, does it really
matter? Finally, I get tired of hearing such costs projections that simply ignore both the
contribution of the substantial return of so many seniors to the workforce, and also the
impact on such costs projections of the potent emerging health technologies, in particular
the stem cell developments.



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Ours is not a culture with a
Submitted by Koko on 5 July, 2008 - 14:18.

Ours is not a culture with a tradition of revering the older members of the community.

Although we have a fairly good social service structure, in terms of pensions etc, we seem to lack a depth of caring as a society.

Other more primitive cultures would never put the old ones in a corner and just feed them , and for the rest of the time ignore them.

Old people in some of these more "primitive" societies are turned to in times of need for their wisdom and are genuinely respected and loved.

I think we are missing that in our society.


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