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Dear GAA Reader, 

A good friend of GAA, Tarek Shuman, alerted us to the issue of reciprocal relations between generations as a possible “human right” for older persons.  On GAA’s FACEBOOK page, Tarek asked whether our readers believe that parents who have supported children’s education should be assured that their children will support them in old age as a “human right,” that would be, we assume, enforced by the national government.

If you are interested in this debate and are a FACEBOOK member, please weigh in.








Please click here to read the summary of the US Department of Agriculture’s study, “Expenditures on Children by Families,” that presents facts about the US experience.

 

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It is estimated that approximately 64 percent of baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) do not have a living will in place. A living will specifies medical care instructions or health care directives they wish to receive in the event they are unable to speak for themselves because of an illness. It also contains details about burial wishes, physicians and location of care. A health care power of attorney is also assigned and he or she will have the responsibility of making sure the details of the living will are carried out. This simple document could save years of court battles or unsettling uncertainty.



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France: Lowering Retirement Age to 60 “a Madness” According to Sarkozy (January 30, 2012)
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President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy said in his televised January 29 speech that the project of socialist candidate François Hollande to lower the retirement age to 60 years was “a madness," "a lie" that "would lead the country to ruin." He praised his pension reform in the law passed on November 9, 2010, noting that every European country had changed its pension law, and that the change would raise 22 additional billion euros by 2017.



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