Senior care and resources for those provide care for senior citizen seems to be an ever growing topic. I came across another site about how to care for senior citizens that has resource information on senior care and is targeted at those who care for seniors. I guess as the population ages this becomes a bigger and bigger issue. If I had money I'd think about investing in nursing homes, assisted living, and senior housing.
On the bright side, if the senior care world is growing there will be more support available. Of course on the not-so-bright side are we going to start competing for resources? I am already worried that the amount of time and money being spent on senior care in this country is starting to become a drain on our economy. Just look at the federal budget and see how much of it goes to medicare and to social security. Now imagine that the number on senior citizens that the government (i.e us taxpayers) are helping to pay for the care of grows until half the country is paying for the care of the other half. People are going to start thinking of senior citizens as a drain on the whole nation. Right now we each only have the drain of the senior that we are caring for.
I guess back to the bright side, there will be an economy based on the care giving industry. Just like we had an economy of people working at Walmart to earn money to buy things at Walmart, maybe we will ahve an economy of poeple working in nursing homes and assisted living facilities to pay taxes so that the countril can affort to keep it's ever growing number of seniors in the same nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
Senior care, the gift that keeps on giving...
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