With the improvements in today’s health care, society has to care for more and more elderly people. Do you feel that society will be able to cope with the increase in numbers of elderly people today and how can it be managed?

Contemporary medicine has been showing surprising positive results and hopes for improvements in the nearest future. Thanks to these accomplishments, some believe that communities should take more responsibility in looking after elderly people. I personally believe that a prolonged average life age should not be an issue for human beings to overcome and in

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I will suggest a possible solution to

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phenomenon.

To begin

with, if we look at to past, since ancient times, mankind was eager to struggle against death and postpone

this

natural stage as much as possible.

This

tendency saved till hitherto and even we can observe how people trying to find out the secrets of infinity, donate huge amounts of money for investigations, which is from my point of view absurd and breaks some ethical norms of our existence.

However

, milestones which we achieved in technology over the

last

3 centuries, helped to increase the living standards.

As a result

, the increasing numbers of old people could be considered one of the causes of the earth's overpopulation, especially elderly ones, which is a big mankind concern.

On the other hand

, the recent practice of Japanese showed us how we can fix

this

dilemma. They, as a whole nation, tend to control their birth rate rationally.

For example

, an average Japanese family have one kid for their whole life.

Moreover

, about 20% of adult couples decide not to have a child for their entire marriage ,

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they prefer to adopt children from orphanages which impacts the living standards of the nation positively. Unfortunately, not all communities have the same tendency as present in Japan.

Nevertheless

, another solution was applied by the Chinese government, which is known as a demographic policy. The government obliges its citizens' taxes for each child starting from the

second

one. In conclusion, the elaboration of health care and increasing ratio of aged individuals should not be a problem for societies in terms of looking after them. In a world, where inhabitants feel a commitment to their lives and governments to their citizens, humanity can cope with

this

issue easily.