Tars
11-01-2009, 10:37 PM
I say the answer is, YES! (If for no other reason, because we'll need to find SOME way to pay for all that medical care!)
Can Boomers Lead an Elder Revolution? (https://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20091029/ts_usnews/canboomersleadanelderrevolution)
For US News & World Report - <cite class="vcard">By Philip Moeller</cite>
Excerpts:
https://bp1.blogger.com/_CHG2GRbeET8/RuE4wN2WyrI/AAAAAAAACVA/9aLRKrXPutU/s200/aged+hippies.jpgIn the elder culture that Roszak envisions, longevity and health become driving social and economic forces. Aging boomers will return to their youthful idealism. They will work to improve the environment and climate problems. They will volunteer like crazy. In their longer lives, they will embrace newly rediscovered values. "The final stage of life is uniquely suited to the creation of new social forms and cultural possibilities," he says. "Age offers us the opportunity to detach from the competitive, high-consumption priorities that dominated us on the job and in the marketplace."
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"We are keeping people alive well beyond any limit for which the family was designed to provide wholly self-reliant care," Roszak says. This situation won't be tolerated indefinitely: "The revolt of the caregivers, when it comes, may be the turning point in the history of the elder culture, as distinctive and defining as the anti-war rallies of the 1960s and 1970s."
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"It's time for the aged to lead the way, he quotes Kuhn as saying: "The old, having the benefit of life experience, the time to get things done, and the least to lose by sticking their necks out, [are] in a perfect position to serve as the advocates for the larger public good."
Can Boomers Lead an Elder Revolution? (https://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20091029/ts_usnews/canboomersleadanelderrevolution)
For US News & World Report - <cite class="vcard">By Philip Moeller</cite>
Excerpts:
https://bp1.blogger.com/_CHG2GRbeET8/RuE4wN2WyrI/AAAAAAAACVA/9aLRKrXPutU/s200/aged+hippies.jpgIn the elder culture that Roszak envisions, longevity and health become driving social and economic forces. Aging boomers will return to their youthful idealism. They will work to improve the environment and climate problems. They will volunteer like crazy. In their longer lives, they will embrace newly rediscovered values. "The final stage of life is uniquely suited to the creation of new social forms and cultural possibilities," he says. "Age offers us the opportunity to detach from the competitive, high-consumption priorities that dominated us on the job and in the marketplace."
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"We are keeping people alive well beyond any limit for which the family was designed to provide wholly self-reliant care," Roszak says. This situation won't be tolerated indefinitely: "The revolt of the caregivers, when it comes, may be the turning point in the history of the elder culture, as distinctive and defining as the anti-war rallies of the 1960s and 1970s."
...
"It's time for the aged to lead the way, he quotes Kuhn as saying: "The old, having the benefit of life experience, the time to get things done, and the least to lose by sticking their necks out, [are] in a perfect position to serve as the advocates for the larger public good."