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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Feminism.

It will be very interesting to see the younger generations of women age single, and alone, with no families of their own. Will they have enough saved for retirement? How will they make it? I have an older female relative -- single, childless, early 70s -- living in another relative's garage because they lost their job. Can't find another one that covers the bills, now health is failing. Without the help of nieces and nephews, she might be on the streets.
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The reality is, from a Friend who has worked in hospices and nursing homes, that’s it’s overwhelmingly older men who are broke with no family. It’s overwhelmingly older men who don’t maintain relationships or whose children feel no loyalty towards them. There’s a reason why men who have daughter live many years longer and women who have sons live shorter lives. Men are energetic “takers” and most of them rely deeply on female labor to even function at a normal level[/quote]
And yet, statistics from the federal government of the United States of America suggest that your "Friend" might be divorced from reality:

[i]Among the population of nursing home residents, the sex ratios are even more dramatic. For those age 65-74 who reside in U.S. nursing homes, for every 100 men there are 132 women. Among residents of nursing homes age 75-84, for every 100 men there are 246 women, and among those age >/=85, for every 100 men there are 425 women.[/i]

[url]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15692280/#:~:text=For%20those%20age%2065%2D74,men%20there%20are%20425%20women.[/url]

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That's only because women live longer, and also because nursing homes are expensive and require lots of money that adult kids are often happy to shell out to take care of mom.  When it comes to really dire, lonely, no-one-around situations, it's overwhelmingly men. [/quote]
Jeepers, why do so many allegedly enlightened, supposedly educated people on DCUM continuously make up facts in support of their specious arguments?  Why?  Anyhoo, the Congressional Research Service -- and probably the American taxpayers -- would like to have a word:

[i]Public sources paid for the majority of LTSS [Long-Term Services and Supports] spending (71.4%). Medicaid and Medicare are, respectively, the first and second-largest public payers, accounting for a combined 64.1% of all LTSS spending nationwide in 2021.

Out-of-pocket spending remained the largest component, at 13.6% of total LTSS spending. Second was private insurance (8.0%), which includes both health and long-term care insurance. Other private funding, which largely includes philanthropic contributions, comprised 7.0% of LTSS spending.[/i]

[url]https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10343[/url][/quote]

This is a study from Indonesia but aligns pretty clearly with what happens in every country.

"Senior women experienced warmth, sympathy, attention, help, and pleasant interactions to a larger extent than senior men...the relationship that elderly men in this study had with their children was not as close as what elderly women experienced. This supports the statement of Papalia and Martorell8 that the relationship between mother and child tends to be closer than the relationship between father and child."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415465/

This aligns perfectly with what my friend observed anecdotally.  Women in nursing homes often still had kids visiting them, grandkids around, families willing to pay for them.  The elderly men were usually the ones being paid for by the state, in horrifically bad health, with literally no one around to care about them. [/quote]

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