We go about our own lives as if ageing will never happen to us, but older people are a reminder that it will
While we waste precious column inches and TV air time on a useless debate about who is worse today, the baby boomer or the millennial generations, the brave generation before the boomers languish in aged care beds, rotting, disintegrating, becoming invisible as the idea of ageing appears to offend us.
There are older people forced into selling their homes for a much in demand aged care bed because there are no family members willing or able to care for them, more often than not the elderly do not wish to be a burden on their families. The fact that they even feel this way is a cultural black mark against our western civilisation. Our oldest culture respects their elders, takes advice from them and in many cases they are regarded as leaders of their people.
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