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A nation’s level of civilization can be measured by the way it treats its oldest and weakest citizens. The short-sighted and disrespectful way elder care is being slashed in the Netherlands is creating a fertile breeding ground for gray-haired populism. We live in one of the richest countries in the world, but again and again the message is, Your care is unaffordable.
I went downstairs for a cup of pea soup. It went down great, but I had to listen to at least ten stories about mothers and grandmothers whose pea soup was so much better. The past, they’re always going on about the past. Live in the present day for a change, you mummified nitwits!

