KINE 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: World State In Brave New World, Nuclear Family, Old Age
13 Oct 2013
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In france there was a heat wave and 80% of old ppl died no one went to their houses to check in on them and a lot of doctors had left paris because of the wave. In scar town an elderly women was found outside her home frozen ppl did not get involved to help her. There was a fire in a nursing home in costa rica a lot of ppl died from the fire because they were tied to their beds. In china, many elderly cannot afford health care; they have to also buy registration tickets to see a doctor. In canada a lady was sent home with two months to live she lived longer, and the doctors wanted to take her machines away that were helping her live. They don"t know that they have a right to work. The elderly popn is increasing in both developed and developing countries. In developed countries we became rich, and old.
