Introduction
Nowadays people are getting older and older. Life doesn’t end with retirement, instead, for many it is twenty more years to go. All the same, the older we get the more fragile we are. At some point we will need to be taken care of – the way will depend on the condition we are in. This is the good side of the demographic trends of today. But the good comes with the bad. The bad thing is that our societies won’t have the resources to give us all the care we need in the way they have done so far. Old people will be too many and young people too few to provide resources and manpower to handle things the way we might expect them to be handled.
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