Ageing society: celebrate or worry
Ageing society: celebrate or worry Over the years, I have found that walking and people watching has become one of my sources of understanding society at large and these observations are reinforced by the literature that I come across. I doubt many will know that October 1 was the world old people's day. With the reports being published that India is one of the worst places to retire , the constant rise in retirement homes and rising crimes against older people, seems that unless the policy makers looked upon seriously now, I might be in deep trouble in 2050's :( One of the key determinants of Ageism (age based discrimination) can be attributed to the concept of 'Retirement'. The industrial revolution has without any doubt created more jobs and reformed education that it can have the right set of skills to fill its demand of laborers, but unfortunately this phase of being employed and worth is so much woven together. With the rise in rapid urbanization t