“The numbers [referring to the growth in the aging population and its relationship to Alzheimer’s] point to a disaster that will be the real zombie apocalypse. Western societies simply won’t be able to bear the costs of Alzheimer’s as the incidence continues to rise. Faced with impossible financial, emotional and psychological costs, we would have to funnel so much of our resources into the care of Alzheimer’s patients that the quality of life for everyone would plummet.

“Escape from the zombie apocalypse, on the other hand, is entirely simple: cure aging itself. To be more precise, the solution to Alzheimer’s is to stop accelerated aging. We need to slow the degeneration that leads to Alzheimer’s and other age-related disease.”
– Patrick Cox, from his new book, The Methuselah Effect

Die Generationen und Geschlechter in vernünftige Relation zu bringen, erfordert viele Vorüberlegungen. U.a. auch Trends in der Bevölkerungshentwicklung statistisch festzuhalten. Die daraus gezogenen Rückschlüsse müssen nicht unbeidngt geteilt werden, sollten aber als Diskussionsgrundlage die Anpassungsgespräche der Zukunft nachhaltig grundieren. Anbei ein Beispiel aus der EU. Die Studie “ Demografie und Familienpolitik “ kann  unter http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2016/571394/IPOL_STU(2016)571394_EN.pdf heruntergeldaen werden.