A few weeks ago, I wrote that a doctor told me that the main problem with our health care system is that people are living too long.
Not only are there more old people than before, but instead of dying at 70, as was the case in the 70s, people are dying at 84.
So they are sick longer.
This puts enormous pressure on our health system.
ON THE EDGE OF THE Abyss
However, it is the same thing in France.
“The new Prime Minister will have to show determination and courage to meet the challenge of old age,” headlined Le Figaro last September 3.
“The establishments that care for our seniors are on the brink of collapse, staff have long exceeded all the limits of what can be tolerated, family caregivers are desperate, and our seniors are dying in silence, often after a long ordeal. , inconceivable in a developed country like ours.
“The chronic lack of resources, combined with a shortage of qualified labor, humiliates our elders. It is now a national crisis, the issue of old age affects all families,” wrote the daily.
Doesn’t that remind you of anything?
And the author of this letter continues: the cost of care has exploded, staff salaries too, budgets have become insoluble puzzles, etc.
“This silent suffering is a shame for our nation. It reveals a deep evil, that of growing indifference towards those who can no longer make their voices heard.
“Old age can no longer be satisfied with reforms. What is needed is a real national surge!”
IT WILL CRACK
According to Retraite Québec projections, over the next ten years, more than one in four Quebecers will reach retirement age.
One in four!
That’s a million more retirees!
This sudden aging of the Quebec population will not only cause problems in the health network, but a financial crisis!
More retirees. Fewer workers. Retirees who live longer. Who are sick longer. And we pay longer for doing nothing.
I apologize, but this model does not hold up.
He’s going to break eventually.
The author of the letter published in Le Figaro is right: we must take the bull by the horns and equip ourselves with an ambitious action plan to help us deal with this gray tsunami.
The problem is that the old people don’t demonstrate. They do not block the streets and suffer in silence.
So we’re not interested in them.
Soon, they will be offered medical assistance in dying. Given that old age is a degenerative disease that cannot be cured and inevitably leads to death.
It will cost less than treating them.
Thank you Grandpa, thank you Grandma, the time has come to get off stage, come on, move on, make way for youth!
“A nation that neglects its elders is condemned to oblivion,” says the proverb.
Ugh.
Don’t you know that the world began when little rabbits were born?