Geopolitics
The Gray Tsunami: A Technological Band-Aid on the West's Civilizational Failure in Elder Care
The WHO projects a rapidly aging global population, with one in six people over 60 by 2030 and a tripling of those over 80 by 2050, straining nursing home capacities worldwide. This demographic shift exposes the cruel failure of neoliberal, profit-driven systems in the West, particularly in the US, to provide dignified care, forcing vulnerable elders to rely on technological band-aids for a basic human right.
