In this age of pestilence we are rightfully shining a light on our eldercare infrastructure. After all, that's where the current plague is finding its most bountiful harvest.
The brown folks who buy up all the suburban McMansions in Brampton and Markham have the right idea. They are buying family homes. "Family" means the entire family. Three and often four generations of one family under the same roof is the norm.
What's so bad about that? From child care to elder care you've just solved a whole lot of problems. And the savings generated by keeping nai nai in the house instead of a five thousand a month retirement home will cover the cost of bringing in PSW care when the time comes, no problem.
Us smart Western folks gave up that kind of backwardness generations ago. It's so much more convenient and modern to warehouse our elders in "long term care homes."
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