Subj : Re: Neuralink
To   : Nightfox
From : Andeddu
Date : Sun Aug 30 2020 10:11:33

  Re: Re: Neuralink
  By: Nightfox to Andeddu on Sat Aug 29 2020 02:19 pm

 > Yet there are a lot of elderly people living in care homes in the US..  I
 > had
 >  the impression that the costs are usually paid by the individuals living
 > there or their families, at least in the US.  I don't think they're publicly
 > funded in the US.

Not very likely. Most US families live pay cheque to pay cheque and social care
can cost around one thousand dollars each week. The elderly ususally have to
liquidate their assets to pay for their own care, however those who have
nothing do not have to pay. In the UK that's what happens as a lot of older
people anticipating a move into a care home transfer their houses and other
assets to their offspring 7 years prior, so they do not have any assets worth
seizing.

Social care is one of the largest unfunded liabilities in the West and no
country can afford it in the long-term. New solutions will have to be
discovered for our generation. I hope automation can deal with this problem...
robot carers may be the future.

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