The Crisis of America’s Aging Society

Social Security

Rich with his elderly mother. Photograph Copyright Julia A. Keirns

In the Age Bomb video by Cia Silver, Professor Hiroyuki Murata states that by 2030 most countries on the earth will become an aging society. It is also clear from studying Social Problems that the United States lags far behind other countries in taking good care of their elderly population. When considering that countries like the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, and Japan…