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[quote=Anonymous]I think one huge issue is that people are living longer and as they are getting into their 80s and 90s, there is more dementia. This wasn't such a problem when people died younger of untreatable heart disease or cancer or TB or pneumonia. Also, when people married in their teens/early 20s and had children early, these kids were leaving the home when the parents were in their early 40s not mid 60s. This is a new thing where 55-65 year olds are looking after 80-100 year olds as well as shepherding their own kids into adulthood while also dealing with their own emerging health problems.

For the person saying "we look after our elders in our culture", is this changing as those elders are surviving longer? It's one thing to have grandma at home helping with the babysitting and cooking vs looking after grandma with memory and physical limitations. Countries like Japan and Korea are facing plummeting birth rates which means there will be way more seniors than there'll be younger people to look after them.[/quote]

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