Essay question: Do you think the aged are valued in the US? why or why not?

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Essay question: Do you think the aged are valued in the US? why or why not?

Answer 1

Nah, when we've drained them of their good years and no longer have a use for them, we put them away somewhere to forget about them.  If they're lucky, we'll visit them on a few holidays each year.

Go to Asia if you want to see how things SHOULD be done.  Age and wisdom are more respected there.

Answer 2

EVERYONE is valuable.  

Answer 3

      

This is a throw away society that perceives any thing new as better.

The wisdom of the aged is wasted on a society that does not value

the ideas and experience of people who have lived and learned and could pass it on. Thus we struggle with the same problems and predicaments that have been solved as if they are new.

Answer 4

I'm old .  I feel valued on Answers.  People think you are old and don't have anything to add. /