The Unlucky Elderly of America 2.0 - LewRockwell

The Unlucky Elderly of America 2.0 - LewRockwell

“Old age is hell,” my dear mother used to tell me far too often. Well, now I am old, and she was right. I can’t complain too much about myself; I’m more fortunate than most. But for much of the elderly in this crumbling country, existence is a nightmare. Someone once said a society is measured by how it treats its elderly. Let’s look at that. A century ago, there were virtually no nursing homes. And there certainly weren’t retirement homes and r…