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‘OK, Boomer’ mentality: Academics want to label old age a disease, in case you had any respect left for the elderly

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Frank Furedi:  is an author and social commentator is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Author of How Fear Works: The Culture of Fear in the 21st Century. Follow him on Twitter @Furedibyte
“The scapegoating of the elderly amounts to a form of gerontophobia, which dehumanises the old. Unfortunately, this unflattering representation of the elderly has become normalised to the point that many old people feel culturally isolated and constantly devalued. In my own research of the process of ageing I was struck by the profound sense of alienation and estrangement that many of my elderly respondents communicated to me. In particular they expressed a deep sense of cultural distance from the young.”

 

‘OK, Boomer’ mentality: Academics want to label old age a disease, in case you had any respect left for the elderly

 

Prominent academics are pushing for the World Health Organization (WHO) to include old age on its list of diseases. They say it will improve old people’s lives – but in reality, it will give everyone the excuse to write them off.

In their wisdom, 30 experts – from prestigious universities like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cambridge Imperial and UCL – have decided that ageing is no longer a normal feature of life. They want the World Health Organization to classify ageing as a disease. This diseasing of old age represents another blow to the moral status of the elderly.

The experts claim that the transformation of ageing from being a natural part of the cycle of life into a protracted phase of illness will ensure that the medical treatment that the elderly receive will improve. No doubt these medics actually believe that they have the best interest of the elderly at heart. But by rebranding the process of ageing as a form of illness these experts unwittingly contribute to the weakening of the moral status of the old and contribute to the ongoing erosion of the authority of adulthood.

Being old is already considered to be an unattractive and undesirable stage of life. The call to diagnose ageing as a form of illness will merely enhance its negative image.

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We Can No Longer Trust Our Doctors

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Don Bowman

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As many people are coming to realize, you have put yourself in a compromising position just by going to your doctor. Your health is the last thing on their minds in too many cases. On one hand claiming not to know about the adverse and at times deadly effects of vaccines and medications, the alternative is that they do know, but don’t care. Many people have found themselves faced with a doctor whose ego is bigger than the room they sit in. Arrogantly obnoxious in many cases, they make it clear that being questioned about therapies is far beneath them. How dare you?

Our healthcare is supposed to be a partnership between doctor and patient. Instead it has become a system of tyranny; the doctor obviously perturbed that he/she actually had to see you, and even more so that you might dare to express your thoughts about what crap they are planning for you.

The movement of the public away from pharmaceuticals and vaccines and towards natural medicines is growing by the day. In response to this, the CDC, FDA and their partnering pharmaceutical corporations are racing to outlaw and neutralize this movement. Ignoring the massive numbers of deaths each year due to medications and vaccines, every effort is made to render alternative natural treatments unavailable.

Many physicians have less knowledge than their patients do concerning deadly medications and vaccines. We routinely see TV advertisements for medications that include the possible side effects, one of which is death. Why would any doctor prescribe medications that could cause the death of the individual? Even when patients attempt to report adverse effects, they are mocked and marginalized by their doctor. Rarely do they ever report these adverse symptoms to the CDC. The CDC claims they only receive an estimated 1% of all actual side effects, including death, as a result of the medications and vaccines. But your doctor will emphatically deny the adverse conditions you are reporting to them , instead claiming it is unrelated. Never mind that you didn’t have these symptoms before, you are just petulantly complaining.

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Chemotherapy causes death in more than 25% of cancer patients

Too many are still recommending chemotherapy and radiation after a diagnosis of cancer. Both therapies known now to cause more premature deaths than the cancer itself. It would appear that many of them are more concerned with kickbacks, payoffs and other perks offered by pharmaceutical sales people, and too many will happily prescribe medications and vaccines, the side effects of which cause lifelong illness and the onset of disease. They don’t care. Or so it would seem.

Elderly people appear to be a targeted group for medical exploitation. Of course there are major opportunities for up-coding, surprise billing, and outright fraudulent charges that have been the catalyst for the scamming of 30-60 billion annually in Medicare costs attributable to medical providers. It isn’t the elderly who collect billions of dollars annually from Medicare….it’s those holier than thou medical providers. There isn’t an elderly individual anywhere in the country who can bill, or collect, funds from Medicare.

Long gone are the days when the family doctor was a trusted friend and partner in your family’s healthcare. Those doctors have been replaced by self absorbed, ego driven, white coated demi-gods who are far more concerned with being adored and feared than they ever could be with your health.

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