Dealing with the elderly
January 17th 2008 08:17
I read somewhere the other day that sixty-year-olds are now considered to be merely middle-aged. It’s only when you become a nonagenarian that you’re beginning to be considered old. In that case I’m merely on the liminality of middle-age. If anyone accuses me of being an old fogey I can tell them where to get off!
The downside – and there’s always a downside to such ‘progress’ – is that the pension age is gradually creeping up. A few years ago, us blokes could retire at sixty and get our much-deserved state income. Now I have to wait till I’m sixty-five. In England the age limit is gradually creeping up for women as well. Over ten years they’ll have made their retirement age 65 – only those who are already hitting the early sixties will escape having to wait longer.
The problem is there are just too many old people and so the government can’t afford to pay us so readily. But the upside is that all that experience and expertise is being kept in the work force for longer. And older people aren’t made to feel as though they’re no longer necessary, which had somewhat become the case.
In spite of the good news side of things, I still have that picture in mind of all the old people slowly walking their way up an incline to be put to sleep in the science fiction movie, Soylent Green, which starred Charlton Heston. The plot involved overpopulation, and the old people were being forced to depart – rather radically!
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The downside – and there’s always a downside to such ‘progress’ – is that the pension age is gradually creeping up. A few years ago, us blokes could retire at sixty and get our much-deserved state income. Now I have to wait till I’m sixty-five. In England the age limit is gradually creeping up for women as well. Over ten years they’ll have made their retirement age 65 – only those who are already hitting the early sixties will escape having to wait longer.
The problem is there are just too many old people and so the government can’t afford to pay us so readily. But the upside is that all that experience and expertise is being kept in the work force for longer. And older people aren’t made to feel as though they’re no longer necessary, which had somewhat become the case.
In spite of the good news side of things, I still have that picture in mind of all the old people slowly walking their way up an incline to be put to sleep in the science fiction movie, Soylent Green, which starred Charlton Heston. The plot involved overpopulation, and the old people were being forced to depart – rather radically!
There's only one unusual word in today's post. Though it might look as though there's more!Your text goes here
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