Med schools prep for ‘silver tsunami’

If sick care is getting involved, the mortician schools should prep, too.

"Just a few years ago, a graduate from Brown University medical school had just an inkling about how to care for the elderly.

Now, Brown and other U.S. medical schools are plugging geriatric courses into their curricula and adding specially trained faculty members as they respond to an imminent boom in the number of older Americans and the need to better understand how to properly care for the elderly."

It is nice, though, to have some in sick care acknowledge that it is unprepared to care for people and tardy in its preparation.

"'The first ripples of the silver tsunami are lapping at the shores of our country, but there is not a coordinated or strategic response taking place in America,' said Richard Besdine, who is director of the geriatrics division at Brown University medical school in Providence, Rhode Island, and past president of the American Geriatrics Society."

Further proof that the industry plays catch-up and not prevention and therefore should be out of the prevention business.

And you should do all you can to prevent yourself from entering sick care until it is absolutely necessary.