Old People

There is a public controversy nowadays over the issue of longer living, which causes many advantages and disadvantages. In my view, longer living has many side effects.
Firstly, to individuals the most important advantage of longer living is that the elder person considerably increased recently. Older person can give some advice from experience to the younger generation, so that to help them when they are in troubles. Taking heed of the suggestion from old, young becomes sophisticated in making their thoughts and hence succeed. On the other hand, longer living has disadvantage to individuals. Take health care for example. When people get older and older that parents have to deal with very seriously health funds and need to pay bills from hospital.
Secondly, there has some advantage to society. Longevity will increase the competition with those young people or fresh graduates, which causes preteen should work harder that before. As another point of views, longer living which brings some disadvantage to society. It’s the high costs to take care of elder people that causes couples not to give birth. Most countries around the world are experiencing low or declining fertility, which results in a growth number of aging population. The employed people have to pay more tax to support elder people on state benefit.
From what I has been stated above, I insist the longer living has advantage as well as disadvantage. It’s also true that Individuals as well as societies are all affected in both positive and the negative ways. http://writefix.com/?page_id=2722/about-this-forum/some-survey-shows-that-in-many-countriespeople-are-living-longer-but-increased-life-expectancy-has-many-implications-for-the-aging-individuals-and-for-society-as-whole-1 People are living longer. However, this has some implications on the individual and the society. What are the possible effects on the individual and the society?

In this day and age, people tend to live a longer life than the inoldEARLIER times.
Taking one’s health issues more seriously allows us to stay healthier and happier when we grow old. This may lead to the increasing number of the elderly and can affect both the individual and the society.

The effects caused by agEing people on the individual can most be seen in a family. Children wish their parents to live longer, but sometimes get tired of having to take care of them when they are sick. Many families have to face the fact that extra time is needed to spend on old people and perhaps more money, too. On the contrary, having older people around the house can be a great benefit for working parents when they need someone to help them look after their CHILDREN. Furthermore, old people can be excellent listeners when we have something to complain about, or great advisers when we have our doubts /in/ABOUT/ doing something.

The agEing society also has its pros and cons. Older people can teach the next generation the responsibility one has to carry, and set good examples for them. They can pass on those nearly forgotten cultures and memorable stories.
Despite the advantages mentioned, the elderly are often considered TO BE consuming too /much/GREAT A SHARE/ OF health resourceS. The government becomes poorer when fewer people are working while the retirement pension given out increases each year.

Overall, living a longer and healthier life is a grateful thing, but it also has great effects on both the individual and the society.

Whatever the causes that contribute to people living longer, the effects of longevity remain uncertain in terms of an individual and the whole society. People's prolonged lifespans are the result of combined efforts of public health measures, disease preventions, improved living conditions and better medical intervenmtions. Added to these, modern people are enjoying the luxuries and conforts provided by technology, and also feeling more positive about life. This emotion factor is said to be beneficial to human beings. But, what then are the possible effects on an individual and on the society as a whole?

It is a blessing to any indivudual to live a long and healthy life. If the practical science and medical technology could continue making breakthroughs and discoveries plus progress in reducing mortality and prolonging lifespan, most children born since 2000 may stand good chances to see their 100th birethdays in the next century. Similarly, if gains in life expectancy were going at the same rate as over the past two centuries, more than half of the children alive today in the developed world may hope to see 100 candles on their birthday cakes. Extended years of lifespan must be a bonus to an individual when families of five or six generations co-exist.

Such effects on the whole society are not clear. A possible change is the distribution of years of the expected lifespans on the social scale. Questions abound. What will these dramatically longer lifespans mean for social services, health care and the economy? How people's lives are to be arranged? For example, if young people realize that they might live 100 and be in good shape, they might also re-think their roles in the society. Would they still decide to dedicate their first two decades exclusively to education, the next four decades exclusively to career and parenting, and the last 40 years solely to leisure, awaiting eventual death? Should working people continue to be retired at 60?

What does it mean to a society in which half of the population is aged over 60, now that the family planning program is in fashion? As an individual, what sense could it make of being retired at 60 and living up to 100 years or longer? All in all, what are the social costs? The good news is that many people will live to see the real effects of people living longer.
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