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The senior population is booming. Caregiving is struggling to keep up

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55 points toomuchtodo | 1 comments | 21 Nov 25 21:05 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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j-conn ◴[21 Nov 25 23:12 UTC] No.46010188[source]▶
“It’s not rocket science — you’ve either got to pay more, or you’ve got to let in way more people. … There are wonderful, caring people all over the world who would like to come care for our seniors at the wages we’re willing to pay, and we just have to let them in,” Gruber said.

This is the crux of it. The government should also subsidize and directly administer more senior care, especially given the economic drag from having family members step into these roles

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incompatible ◴[21 Nov 25 23:26 UTC] No.46010307[source]▶
It was predicted a few decades ago by looking a demographics. Where would we be now if we hadn't had all that time to prepare?
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1. toomuchtodo ◴[21 Nov 25 23:29 UTC] No.46010338[source]▶
Same spot because we made the choice to do nothing different with the lead time. At least the population compression is locked in [1], the short term pain will be dealt with regardless.

[1] https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf