These numbers suggest that the elderly will soon become a major burden on society.
FORBES: Why We Need Innovation To Prepare For The Global Aging Society
Depression is not only a source of terrible personal suffering but also a huge economic burden on society.
Sure, we might live longer, sure we might end up being less of a burden on society, but at what price?
In fact, strategies that put the elderly at the center of the innovation process could significantly increase the prospects of turning the elderly from being a burden on society to being an asset.
FORBES: Why We Need Innovation To Prepare For The Global Aging Society
She saw vivid proof of what so much research has shown: Children raised in orphanages and deprived of consistent, loving attention from adults tend to abandon their own children, fall into lives of crime and become a burden on society, unable to hold a steady job or raise a family.
They said deaths from cancer and long-term diseases were a "considerable burden" on society and accounted for 42% of all deaths.
Add hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and Coast Guard personnel who will be forced out of uniform and may wind up out of work and, in some cases, homeless, and you have a serious additional burden on our economy and society.
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Labour AM Vaughan Gething called for clearer tariff information from the energy providers as he argued that the pressure to find the best deal was putting an additional burden on the poorest in the society.
What we need is Congress to get to work, to agree to compromise, to agree to do the work of the American people, instead of satisfying some narrow slice of the political spectrum, so that we can reduce our deficit in a responsible way that does not heap the burden on single -- small segments of society.
And -- otherwise one segment of society has to take on an unfair portion of the burden.
Independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, dreamed of a socialist society and created a vast public infrastructure, much of which became a burden on the state.
The Newspaper Society, representing local papers, said the proposals would place "a crippling burden on the UK's 1, 100 local newspapers, inhibiting freedom of speech and the freedom to publish".
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