Advantages and disadvantages of living longer

There are people who have lived a long life. It is difficult for people to believe that they would be able to live too much like their grandparents. There are many factors that help have a better and longer life. On the contrary there are factors which don´t help to have a good life. People who are hundred or more years old have advantages and disadvantages to live such a long life.

Young people believe that it isn’t possible to live long. This thoughts are because today humans have a hectic life, so they can´t spend time with their families. There are many work to do in the place of their jobs. The life is more complicated every day because everything is more expensive than before, so people work extra hours. For those reasons people don´t have a good quality of life.

They sleep only a few hours. People don´t eat healthy food, on the contrary almost all of them eat fast food once or twice a week. If we talk in Costa Rica, because in the United States people have other customs and they eat this kind of food almost every day. Previously people had other kind of life. They had a peaceful life and they planted all of food that they ate and it was healthy food.

Nowadays elderly people are discriminated, because people say that they aren´t productive for the society. It means that they don´t generate money. Actually people only think about money, and if someone doesn´t work and pay everything that people want to, they dislike this in group of persons and in this case is about elderly people. In contrast there are people who help old people, there are economical help for old who can´t work and don´t have money to live. This economical help id for sick people too and obviously if they are elderly, in fact this kind of organization is an advantage for old people.

Elderly people can´t do some activities that they could do when they were young. It is difficult for them to walk if they have problems with their legs or their spine. For some of them it is difficult to take a showering themselves. It is sad to be unable to do everything for oneself , and see how there are people who want to do things that previously they could do, is gratifying. But for all of them there are nursing homes, in those places there are people who take care of elderly people.

I think that everybody can get alder and may be if our turn arrives, we want someone to take care of us. For that today we can do something to help people who need it.