One of the consequences of improved medical care is that people are living longer and life expectancy is increasing. Do you think the advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages?

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ublic which has led to a rise in their average life span. There are certain benefits and drawbacks to
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view but in my opinion, the positive aspects of improved healthcare have surpassed the negative ones. Improved medical care has both sides to the picture-advantageous as well as undesirable aspects. As far as the benefits are concerned, the average life which a person expected to live has significantly risen up due to the availability of advance health care opportunities to the sick. Despite having multiple chronic diseases, people live a lot longer than average statistical life they should have with
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, patients having diabetes mellitus, hypertension and ischemic heart diseases at the same time died quite early because of lack of research in treatment guidelines for these disorders.
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, a major setback to get
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a level of healthcare is that it has become a financial burden for the patient.
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sum of money is spent on treatment which sometimes, does not even prove to be of
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, terminally-ill cancer patients tend to spend big amounts on prescriptions despite being aware of the fact that they will die soon.
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, bills to be paid in the name of care provided by hospital authorities are often beyond the afford of
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eneral public. Overall, improved health facilities enhance the standard of living and the benefits outbalance a few pitfalls.
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Include an introduction and conclusion

A conclusion is essential for IELTS writing task 2. It is more important than most people realise. You will be penalised for missing a conclusion in your IELTS essay.

The easiest paragraph to write in an essay is the conclusion paragraph. This is because the paragraph mostly contains information that has already been presented in the essay – it is just the repetition of some information written in the introduction paragraph and supporting paragraphs.

The conclusion paragraph only has 3 sentences:

  • Summary
  • Restatement of thesis
  • Prediction or recommendation

Example:

To summarize, a robotic teacher does not have the necessary disciple to properly give instructions to students and actually works to retard the ability of a student to comprehend new lessons. Therefore, it is clear that the idea of running a classroom completely by a machine cannot be supported. After thorough analysis on this subject, it is predicted that the adverse effects of the debate over technology-driven teaching will always be greater than the positive effects, and because of this, classroom teachers will never be substituted for technology.

Start your conclusion with a linking phrase. Here are some examples:

  • In conclusion
  • To conclude
  • To summarize
  • Finally
  • In a nutshell
  • In general

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • life expectancy
  • elderly population
  • health care systems
  • pension funds
  • extended family relationships
  • quality of life
  • aging population
  • economic growth
  • volunteer work
  • expertise
  • financial planning
  • retirement
  • age-related diseases
  • medical research
  • healthier lifestyles
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