Intergenerational Conflict

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This paper examines how, for many years, there has been discussion about the best ways to deal with rising costs of medical care for the elderly. It looks at how we should attempt to cure the current and future medical costs dilemma by improving our attention to living in less medically damaging ways, many of which are already known to us, such as smoking, and more of which will become known as science deals with and investigates the costly problem of aging.

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"First, the human suffering would intensify, and it would be the parents and grandparents of the current young, working generations who would suffer. This alone would cause intergenerational stress of extreme proportions. Even when an "elder" is being cared for, in some relatively acceptable fashion, it causes generational stress. Washington Times writer Adrienne T. Washington reports on visiting a relative in a nursing home, and being appalled when a strange "elder" Washington was helping broke down crying because she had not been treated kindly in such a long time. In addition, most people think the government will take care of it if they need a nursing home's care, but they would be wrong."

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