The World Health Organization is currently celebrating the Decade of Healthy Ageing, producing numerous reports on the problems faced by elderly people in youth-oriented Western societies. The WHO intends to tackle what it regards as the problem of “ageism” in the way it tackles everything else: from a social democratic perspective, treating the elderly as the latest minority group in need of special favors.
But while the WHO’s misguided cure for ageism essentially amounts to raising everyone’s taxes in order to subsidize pensioners, the diagnosis itself is not without merit.
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