20 years ago, there was one thing that can surprise me no end. To say that you were visiting some old people, and the lady of the house had called for lunch or something. It is usual for the gentleman to say that “girls” at noon and were expected back shortly. The first time that happened, the sound of their closing garage door heralded the arrival of the “girls”, and waited half young granddaughter types appears on the scene. The arrival of two ladies in the 80s, with the convolutions of silver hair, full makeup, matching shoes and handbags, fancy pin et al. Had me completely speechless.

The elderly and Superseniors. And I speak not of performers being in college.

There is a new category of people defined these days. Thanks to the excellent medicine, exercise habits, control of the prudent diet, and most importantly, a constant curiosity for learning, today, more and more people remain in their installer middle 80s.

There is a whole generation of people whose children are now, which are considered elderly.

In a recent talk at the St. Louis meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in February 2007, Professor S. Tuljapurkar of Stanford, talked about the economic and demographic dating Antie therapies currently in use. Between 2010 and 2030, life expectancy of people is expected to increase by 20 years, with people living in their mid-80s regularly. It turns out that the economic czars nations worried about is basically the ratio of the population of retirees in the workforce. And it is estimated that following the adoption of different anti aging therapies and medicines, this ratio is lilely to quadruple by 2035.

Who has one, if I may use the word rotation fatal policies social security and Medicare in the United States.

Concentrate the use of certain treatments and the use of certain drugs mainly by the countries in the world, would have a telling effect on drug prices, set by pharmaceutical companies, hell bent on profit. This not bode well for a world where there are other countries where the primary cause of all struggles, poverty, lack of progress is almost always, money, and what you can buy or not to buy with it.

And today, the policy seems to engage in militant and / or military interaction, to meet our national passion for consumerism, many things, mainly oil. The same goes for the obsession to never look your age. Companies pharrma literally milk you dry and you ask for more, and spending surreal becomes the norm, blinding us to the real situation on the ground.

Tax scenarios apart, it’s educational for what would happen in a world of superseniors backed by the gods pharmceutical of visuaise.

Imagine a family getting together for Thanksgiving. The family patriarch and matriarch, (conditions you would have laughed at) a lot on stage, try orgainse a table for 55 people. Their 4 children, 2 of them elderly themselves, driving approximately 100 kilometers. Their children, some working with large companies, some business and some from academia, trying to make this trip as part of a group of systems of air / train / car. And their selection this spring off from elementary school to college, making, they think of such a family trip for the compulsory years, never fail to do, no matter what. A special person has been employed to cook the meals, the varieties of liquid refreshments boggle the mind, given the alcohol, sugar, lactose and celiac restrictions currently in force the whole family. The family beaches great grandfather at 95 the youngest third grader, who thinks that trying to understand all the group members, is the worst quiz ever met.

Midway meal, someone falling asleep at the table, probably the oldest or youngest. Trembling hand of a person trying to take a drink on their own will probably spill something from someone. Another person waving their heads. Great Grandma, overcome by excitement sleep in the living room at his granddaugter account of his trip to Bangladesh to study higher levels of the ocean and listening to the sinking of land due to global warming it. A couple of Papa intersect making repeated trips to the bathroom, its so hard these days, isn’t it?

The women discuss mammograms last of the elder, shaking his head to the inevitable waiting list for diagnostic procedures in hospitals; ordibnary and the subject will inevitably shift around how all this outsourcing of work to create medical diagnostic reports for third world countries, forcing people to deal with fake sound effects and Carolyn who is the spelling “color” with u after the second o and pronounce the letter Z as “zed “….

What this miraculous anti-aging medicine we gave you? Beauty? Maybe. Mobility? Maybe. But mobility has never been a problem in the United States. Comfort? Physically, maybe. Vigilance? Sometimes. Best cure? Certainly.

Peace of mind? I do not know.

When we say anti-aging therapies and drugs to succeed, we talk only about the physical aspects. Aspects visible immediately.

Notwithstanding the fact that pharmaceutical companies, being those who are more interested in marketing these antiaging tips, consider the body as a physics engine, it is necessary for us to keep in mind that there is a mental aspect to all: there is something called “body and mind, and everything good happens to the body depends on how extremely happy and the spirit may be optimistic.

The social system, with its obsession with individual independence and privacy, makes it difficult for older people today view life with their children and grandchildren together. Either think its a burden. Everyone is obsessed about what the insurance company and will pay and what it does not pay. The elderly have been reduced to being thought of as an expense.

Think of a further generation of people over 80, living in thei midnineties may be working until their mid-80s. Spruced up and spritely, never missing a single dose of their omega-3 fish oil and coenzyme Q 10, Botoxed faces shining in the sun, their cars with special buttons to click using the thumbs trigger arthritic semi address Opening doors and trunk, driving home in their senior communty in a car with a GPS they do not think they really use its a bit complicated.

And they reached their rooms / suites, rest in their seats, (with all call buttons embedded on the arm rest, with a special connection to hot and the main office) and they want werent home. Solitaire. She worried that something happens and there may be no family around them, no children to admire and pay for your good wishes that you get this sinking feeling. . All these stem cell therapies, electrical stimulation of the brain, and what you can not hide the fact that this body is now an old machine; forgetfullness the increased and sometimes things they remember from their childhood and as if the scenes flash in front of their eyes. Past episodes of their younger days come to life. You try getting into the chair in this dream about your youth, only to realize that bone density had changed, and you need help. And your spouse can not help you either. She fell asleep with the coffee getting cold. You just want that you have your family around you ….

This generation of superseniors as created by the aging miracle drugs and procedures will be essentially worthless unless acompanied by a blow out of existing systems of social families. Systems of extended family. That help preserve the peace of mind and mental health of older people now in the evening of their lives.

Life as we know the United States, it can not and should not be dictated by the fiscal and monetary matters. Insurance should not decide if one parent lives or dies.

It has often been instructive to study different populations in China, Mongolia, Russia and various Asian destinations, where people live merrily but also their hundreds, with their own hair (brown, untreated), their teeth and have the most importantly, their own confidence.

Turns out that these people do not make a special effort to imbibe all kinds of foods called magic hitherto unknown in the West. They have strong social systems of family, eating local foods, the traditional local way, enjoy their drinks, probably are not consciously aware of factors such as cholesterol etc.. But probably unconsciously eat all Food correct their lifetimes, according to their physical environment, local flora and fauna and the local water.

Diseases are not considered disasters, they are events that are ordered to rest your body may be overstrained by imbibing some blind stuff. Food itself can be used as a medicine, and this knowledge is constantly available in the family, updated and distributed to more recent generations. Tolerance for different views of people in age and attitude, comes to have close contacts with all members of your family. People in the family chipping, emotionally, during the bad weather affecting any member are a matter of routine, and no glamorization it.

Various stages of life are those defined with various functions. The Indian scripts, define, in addition to birth, childhood, adoloscence, marriage, a condition called “home use”. It is when you are a mailing. You have children, support families, the growing slpervise and chanelling energy children. Children grow up, defining their own family. The Sriptures at this stage, define a way of life, which, when loosely translated, means “peaceful retreat in the woods”. The operative word here being the “peaceful”.

In these days of global warming and inconvenient truths, wood can be difficult to find. But many have interpreted this to mean that the family now offers a virtual green zone, where seniors after their family responsibilities, now help with raising grandchildren. Ambitions at the age of 70 are quietly ignored, occasioanlly an indulgent son or daughter urging grandparents to move forward and try something new then is a big pleasure.

These lifestyles can not be intelligent in a world drug. But it’sa way of life, tried and tested over a number of centuries, when the mind is given as much, if not more important than any physical body. Life has to be lived in balance.

Can stress get reduced by defining it, or fiddle with receptors in the brain.

If at the end of the day we can honor these superseniors in our family, giving them our time, place, care, dedication, and of course, occasionally, other resources such as money, we would have won the right to live in a happy old age, comfort and care (per family) ourselves.

What goes around often comes. Life is rarely linear. Cyclical, more likely.

And so, although the statistics say we have people working merrily to their late 80s, causing all sorts of economic, Congress, presidential tax pharnaceutical and other crises, I firmly believe , there will be family system defined social upheavals that will require us to examine the existing ups, leading to changes strong enough, a reassessment of what the essential medicine, good, what is not and the price we pay for it.

Meanwhile, maybe I can tell you about a friend, a woman who is 90, who disdainfully ignore all those antiaging physical anti aging therapies, teaches mentally challenged children a few days each week, reading about people with a age “old” home 2 afternoons a week, volunteers at the local library on other days and said that what keeps her fit is gardening she does every day around the time of beautiful Northern California.