Category: Elderly

Month in Review, January 2013: Part 2, To the global

14 March, 2013 (14:38) | Bankruptcy, Cambridge, Detroit, Elderly, Euro, Global markets, Greece, Humor, MEEs, Month in review, Public housing, Redevelopment, Rent control, Spain, Speculation |

By:David A. Smith   [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   Yesterday’s Part 1 of this review on the localized issues covered in January brought us to the problem of one elderly mother and her daughter and son-in-law, an issue that is confronting China (and even more, Japan) at a scale far surpassing our needs here [...]

Month in Review, January 2013: Part 1, From the local

14 March, 2013 (14:34) | Bankruptcy, Cambridge, Detroit, Elderly, Euro, Global markets, Greece, Humor, MEEs, Month in review, Public housing, Redevelopment, Rent control, Spain, Speculation |

[Previous Months in Review available here: Dec 12, Nov 12, Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12]   By:David A. Smith   No interval is so gloomy as to be entirely without its lighter side, and for a New England Patriots fan despondent at the team’s elimination from the playoffs, [...]

Grandma in a can?

28 January, 2013 (09:58) | Configuration, Elderly, extended families, health care, Housing, Innovations, manufactured housing, Mobile homes, US News, Zoning | 1 comment

By:David A. Smith   What do we live for?    Pleasure, happiness, success, new experiences, friends, children, loved ones?    Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care (about time)   Old age, the silent thief, can imperceptibly steal each of these from us, and as all of us are reluctant [...]

Filial piety — or else

15 January, 2013 (11:56) | Aging, China, Demographics, Elderly, Global news, health care, Innovations, nursing homes, Rental, Speculation |

By:David A. Smith   When a government is bereft of ideas to solve a social problem, it tosses the problem to the private markets; when it is bereft of money, it mandates that someone else pay for the solution.      [Governments' responses are so predictable because government is a factory that produces only two [...]

The gray tidal wave: Part 2, work longer

16 November, 2010 (16:08) | Aging, Configuration, Demographics, Elderly, Global news, Housing, Rental, US News | 1 comment

By: David A. Smith   [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   Yesterday’s post on the gray tidal wave of aging populations explored a new report (in Adobe Acrobat, and overview of results also in pdf) from the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies authored by demographers Richard Jackson, Neil Howe, and Keisuke Nakashima, whose [...]