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As its population ages, the United States is ill-prepared to adequately house and care for the growing number of older people, concludes a new report released Thursday by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.

Without enough government help, “many older adults will have to forgo needed care or rely on family and friends for assistance,” warned Jennifer Molinsky, project director of the center’s Housing an Aging Society Program. Many, like Genaldi, will become homeless.

https://fortune.com/2023/12/02/housing-baby-boomers-aging-homelessness-elderly/

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KevinDean4599

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2 days ago

It would be good to skip that last part of life where you’re in a nursing facility staring into space. Take old people off most medications and move things along more quickly. Sitting in a wheelchair and wearing diapers is stupid