The new direction...

I was planning to write more about fraud, but there is another issue that has been on my mind for quite sometime now. I have been thinking about it, but I was unaware of its severity. My wife and I just returned from our vacation in Asia, and while changing planes at the Los Angeles airport, I was amazed at the number of seniors I saw. It seemed like everyone we saw was older than us. It's like my eyes were opened! I realise concerns about our ageing population has been covered by the media, but this was the first time the issue hit me hard.

During our travels, we talked to the locals and learnt how people take care of their aging parents and compared it to how we do things in North America. Yes, we have nothing much to do while traveling but think about our business. LOL! But we are not going to dwell on that right now. We were interested to see that the issues they faced were similar to the issues that we faced back home.

What I want to talk about is how the aging population is on the rise and the issues that comes with this dramatic change in demographics. 

For about a decade now, the senior population is rising and the birth rates is declining in most developed countries. The next generations, and their governments, are going to be faced with some new challenges to handle this change            

Why I am dwelling on this? Over the next few blogs, I want to explore some of these issues. I just want to see, if anybody out there shares the same concerns as us, and what we can do as a community, to make things better for our future.