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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
Hi.
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
Paint the picture for me first of just how different the situation with life expectancy is now compared to the rest of human history.
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
And some of those public health schemes are things that we just take for granted now, like seatbelts in cars, for example.
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
We should note, of course, that there are major disparities in life expectancies here.
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
And I'm thinking of that huge glaring disparity between First Nation Australians and other citizens.
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
Let's look, Lucinda, at what this new vastly extended lifespan means for older people themselves, first off.
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
Because back before the increase in longevity, how long were older people typically in serious health decline before they died?
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
Tell me more about your experience with your own parents.
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
What did you witness as their years went on and on?
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
Your mother outlived your father and outlived many of her relatives and friends.
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
How did you see that impact her, that loss after loss after loss?
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
When death does finally come for people in extreme old age, advanced old age, it is now often part of a medical process, one handled by doctors in hospitals.
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
How has that fact shaped the way we experience old age and death?
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
Were you able to have frank conversations with they, your parents, able to have frank conversations with the doctors who were organising these tests and these interventions?
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
Could you say the word death to your parents' doctors?
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
Was it that explicit as the time was coming closer for your own mum and dad?
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
Old age is, of course, not always terrible.
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
It's not inevitably this sort of decline that many people experience.
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
It can be this beautiful, bountiful stage of life.
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Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia
You write about your nana who lived on a farm.