About ageing
Word of age no longer has the same importance as a few centuries ago. In the history, it had much shorter life span. People are dying at 30-40 years of age and have been in such an age considered to be old people. Today, in our time are 30-40 year-olds in the most productive period of his life. Life expectancy in our area rose sharply, up to 120 years. Gradually this really means that more and more peple among us is 100 years old. Of course, this is not true for all cultures, in some places people are still dying at age 30.
What has changed that the life period changes so dramatically? Certainly many factors, the most important are advances in medicine, technology, and genetics.
In sociaty, the age and the elderly are all too often associated with the load, which is necessary to maintain pensions and social transfers, enabling them to more and more health care services due to several health problems, etc. In doing so we forget what kind of wealth these people are for young people and for society. Not all elderly people are sick, you really have to have more health problems, especially chronic, which must regularly take medication and / or attending physician. Pensions after so many years of work permit them survival, most of the elderly receives a small pension. Unfortunately, however, their knowledge, wisdom and usefulness of mature age remains overlooked. If we wan`t to changed things, the younger people must begin to think differently and change the negativism that accompanies older age. Life expectancy has lengthened, but society opinion still remains rooted. This is the most difficult to change, but with small steps we can succeed. Today when we are young, many believe that it does not matter. After a few years, decades, when we / us will be treated as elderly, we will care.
Entering the Third Age is itself a major life change. A person retires, physical changesare more visible, the strength routine that we have grown for many years reduces or disappear, young and younger no longer have time for a retired person, the lost of status, which was present at the work, the longer a person is retired, less friends he has left. It is not necessary that everything is so black. Why not say: "Even though I'm old / but I can still do a lot."