[HN Gopher] The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of carin...
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       The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America's
       elderly
        
       Author : bryanrasmussen
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-08-26 19:41 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | coldtea wrote:
       | The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of having an atomized
       | society where adult kids don't take care of their elederly
       | parents (to "enjoy their lives" - by being overworked, lonely,
       | depressed, with no friends and support to fall back to, and
       | ending up eventually themselves too in some gray nursing home,
       | abused by the staff and ignored by their kids).
       | 
       | (Not just American - it's all over the west).
        
         | nradov wrote:
         | Even in eastern societies people aren't necessarily happy to
         | care for the elderly. Some young Chinese women are reluctant to
         | marry because they'll get stuck caring for their in-laws. And
         | I'm not criticizing them, just pointing out that the issue
         | isn't a simple east / west divide.
         | 
         | https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/29/china/china-millennials-marri...
        
         | bsder wrote:
         | And what happens when your mother gets Alzheimer's in her 50's?
         | 
         | You have two kids, a job that could lay you off at any time,
         | and a mortgage and you're barely over 30. And now you have a
         | mother who requires 24/7 healthcare and will _never_ improve.
         | 
         | Elder care is a _societal_ problem because one person cannot
         | muster the resources for even a single, high-maintenance elder
         | with dementia.
        
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