A few weeks ago, I wrote that a doctor told me that the main problem with our health care system is that people live too long.
Not only are there more elderly people than before, but instead of dying at 70, as was the case in the 1970s, people are dying at 84.
So they get sick longer.
This puts enormous pressure on our health system.
On the edge of the abyss
However, it is the same in France.
“The new Prime Minister will have to show determination and courage to meet the challenge of aging,” the headline read. Le Figaro Last September 3.
“Institutions that care for our elderly are on the verge of collapse, long-time staff have crossed the limits of what can be tolerated, family caregivers are desperate, and our elderly are dying in silence, often after a prolonged ordeal, unimaginable for a developed country like ours.
“Chronic resource shortages, coupled with a shortage of qualified workers, degrade our seniors. It is now a national crisis, and the issue of aging affects all families,” the newspaper wrote.
Doesn't that remind you of anything?
The author of this letter continues: Health care costs have exploded, employee salaries have exploded, budgets have become unsolvable puzzles, and so on.
“This silent suffering is a disgrace to our nation. It reveals a deep evil: a growing indifference toward those who can no longer make their voices heard.
“Old age can no longer be satisfied with reforms. What we need is a real national boom!”
It will crack
According to Retraite Québec forecasts, within the next ten years, more than one in four Quebecers will reach retirement age.
One in four!
That's another million retirees!
This sudden aging of the Quebec population will not only cause problems in the health network, but will lead to a financial crisis!
More retirees. Fewer workers. Retirees who live longer. Who have been sick longer. We pay more time for doing nothing.
I apologize, but this model doesn't hold up.
It will eventually break.
Author of the letter published in Le Figaro And it's true: we have to face the bull and equip ourselves with an ambitious plan of action to help us deal with this gray tsunami.
The problem is that old people don't pretend. They do not block the streets and suffer in silence.
So we are not interested in them.
Soon, they will be provided with medical assistance in dying. Considering that aging is a degenerative disease that cannot be treated and inevitably leads to death.
It will be less expensive than treating them.
Thank you, Grandpa. Thank you, Grandma. It's time to get off the stage. Come on, keep going, make way for the guys!
The proverb says: “A nation that neglects its elders is doomed to forget.”
Yes.
Don't you know that the world began when little rabbits were born?
