Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Insurance-free healthcare

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On May 1, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Belzer wrote:

> Betty Fridan's The Fountain of Age mentions how she heard much concern 
> about
> the cost of elderly people's care and treatment; largely unfounded, as 
> she
> learned.  She told of the answers several groups of retired people 
> invented
> to these questions.  I recommend this book.

I also recommend this book. It makes you begin to notice where the 
messages are coming from about illness in old age. The statistics are 
very different from the image played on TV. The majority of people 
require extra care for only a few months or weeks before death. A very 
small percentage live in nursing homes.

The messages that everyone has to prepare for extraordinary care come 
from people selling things. Just like retirement is promoted as a value 
by retirement funds.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Building Community: A Guide to Creating New Neighborhoods
http://www.buildingcommunity.info