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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was growing up, most people in our neighborhood lived in multi-generational households. Typically a grandchild shared a bedroom with the frail elderly relative. [/quote]

Where did you grow up?  I can say that I have never once heard of anything like this. Ever. You seriously think that children should be responsible for helping their elderly parents get up off the floor when they fall down and that children should be helping their elderly grandparents to the bathroom at night?  Yikes.[/quote]

Much of the world takes care of the elderly in their home by family.  It is only in the western world, particularly in the US where putting seniors in nursing homes
away from their families and younger generations is common.[/quote]

Have you done it?  You are not helpful at all.  I did it for a year and it almost broke me.  I couldn't work, could not leave the house or turn my back for a minute.  We have a small house, so that was another huge issue.[/quote]

No judgement here. Believe me I get it.  I'm currently touring nursing homes in Maryland and Florida.

I'm guessing in 3rd world locations seniors just don't live as long.[/quote]
Perhaps, but if they do they probably also haven't been chronically ill for as long. Our elderly are more obese and have more health problems than ever. Many older folks I know can hardly get around because they never exercised a day in their life and drank coke and ate doritos for decades. People in other countries aren't as sick as we are.[/quote]

I think that when they get sick in less developed countries it's more or less a death sentence.  People are living longer in the US because they have had access to decent medical care, including immunizations against childhood diseases, since they were babies.  We have better access to food and clean water and life is generally more comfortable and requires less physical labor than a life in a less developed country requires.[/quote]

This is the correct answer. When you have catastrophic conditions like a stroke, heart attack etc, you just die there in many cases. In a lot of cases the ambulance doesn’t get there in the critical period (esp if we’re talking rural) and the public hospital/medics don’t have the resources to provide the level of lifesaving care they provide here. Many of the ppl here who survive a stroke but are in a wheelchair or have communication difficulties would have died immediately in a developing country.

For chronic illnesses ppl don’t have access to the life extending care they need (chemo, dialysis centers, etc. which you need to go to multiple times a week) on a regular basis so they die in a matter of weeks at home. You go fast if you don’t do those things.

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