Our youth obsessed culture is about to get a shock
The first wave of Baby Boomers are retiring, and by some estimates one-in-five Americans will be over 65 by 2030.
How does a culture obsessed with youth cope?
So far, most of our fixes have been technological - and amazing new gadgets to help the elderly function are in the works.
But even the researchers behind these new inventions admit it: our society can't handle this "silver tsumani" without fundamentally changing they way it handles the elderly.
An essay at The New Existentialists suggests that psychology should be playing a key role in this transition. That instead of just trying to "fix" symptoms, psychologists have a vital role to play in providing healthy perspective to people about the a life that includes old age.
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