In the next few months, our healthcare system will change. How it will change remains to be seen, but I am certain that the frail elderly of our society will take a back seat to everyone else. As far as I can tell from history, this is nothing new.
Yet, we wonder how so many of our nation's children get into serious trouble. Could it be that the very people, who, after a lifetime of experiences, and education are dismissed as having no value.
We need to care for the frail elderly in order that during the caring process they have the opportunity to transfer a lifetime of accumulated wisdom to us.
An African proverb comes to my mind: "When an older person dies, a library burns down."
How many libraries will be abandoned and even lost today?
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