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Other People's Old People
Wednesday. 1.5.11 10:46 pm
I have been looking into Foster Care and Social Work programs lately, and I have been finding a lot of stuff about the elderly. Apparently, we have an epidemic in this country of an aging population that needs care and are not getting it. They are abused and neglected. Some of them are 'dropped off' by family members at hospitals who don't know what else to do and some are kicked out of nursing homes because they are too difficult.

Some are calling out for programs like the foster system to help take in old people with no where else to go. Maybe even state funded old people orphanages.

All in all, this is a little scary. From my own perspective, it makes me very eager to have a young family that can take care of me in my old age, to be nice to them, and to make sure some of them, at least, like me. For my parents, who don't even want to think about getting old, I hope that I can be there for them if they ever do need help. Then, there are my old people now: my grandmothers. That is a more important concern. For a long time, my hale and hardy grandmothers didn't really worry me. They were so fit, I just kind of figured they'd live forever. But what happens when my grandmothers can't get up and play golf or devour good books and go shopping at Tuesday Mornings? Who is going to take care of them? My parents? Me? If they live with me, how can they stay in touch with all of their friends? How can they still feel useful and safe, instead of like a foreign invader in my otherwise humdrum life? These are all important questions to answer.

However, I think more important is, would anyone really want to look after other people's old people? I know I wouldn't. I remember visiting my grandfather in the hospital when I was three years old, terrified of all of the ancient people shuffling about with their gnarled hands... Come to think of it, I think a little old man actually started to chase us with his walker. Even though I've grown older and I have become a little more sensitive to the issues of old age, I am not going to adopt other people's old people.

What about your old people? Do you have any old people to look after? What will happen to you when you are an old person? Would you ever consider adopting someone else's old person?
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I think they should be lined up in a long line and interviewed, and everyone who the government thinks doesn't have a good enough "quality of life" can be denied hip and knee replacements and organ transplants, and in their ensuing pain and depression and immobility they can choose the option of assisted suicide.

"THUS DECREASING THE SURPLUS POPULATION."

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» Zanzibar on 2011-01-06 10:50:34

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