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RE: The Closing Down of Care Homes: An Inevitability (a reply to @lloydy, sorta)
@akareyon care for the elderly currently accounts for 43 percent of the total health care spending in the U.S. --- about 1 trillion dollars a year - Mayo Clinic report, August 19th 2016. Info taken from Ray Kurzweil's newsletter. (KurzweilAI.net) Full article link: http://www.kurzweilai.net/mayo-clinic-collaborators-working-to-advance-aging-research-via-clinical-trials?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5e2edd3b5c-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-5e2edd3b5c-282147641
I have a vested interest. Home caring my father with Alzheimers for 2 years now. There are no easy options, but thank you for raising awareness.
Thank you for the hard numbers, @davidbrogan! I did not even think about going into the financial costs because the point seems to make itself, but I must admit: 43% of the total health care spending in the U.S., that was still a figure that surprised me. Power to you and your family; being human is nothing special when the options are easy.