Looking after the old people in Ghana- Matters Arising

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• Kweku Ananse 11 years ago

  What we lack in Ghana is social equity and proper distribution of wealth to address poverty. More governmental interventions needed to create health insurance schemes for the old from the oil and cocoa revenues.

  What we lack in Ghana is social equity and proper distribution of wealth to address poverty. More governmental interventions needed to create health insurance schemes for the old from the oil and cocoa revenues.

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• BB 11 years ago

  It is good we take care of our old folks but indeed some of them are the way they are because of their reckless and irresponsible lifestyles!

  It is good we take care of our old folks but indeed some of them are the way they are because of their reckless and irresponsible lifestyles!

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• Aristotle Nikoi 11 years ago

  What a great poem. Some young people think that they will never grow old. So suddenly when old age catches up on them they are not prepared for that great role as senior citizens. You need to be commended.

  What a great poem. Some young people think that they will never grow old. So suddenly when old age catches up on them they are not prepared for that great role as senior citizens. You need to be commended.

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• Kwesi Atta Sakyi 11 years ago

  Yes, I reflected on my own life and wrote the poem. Thank you for thanking me.

  Yes, I reflected on my own life and wrote the poem. Thank you for thanking me.

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• KKO 11 years ago

  Good article, Kwesi,
  Somewhere along the line, the senior citizens of Ghana will have to make their block vote count!

  Good article, Kwesi,
  Somewhere along the line, the senior citizens of Ghana will have to make their block vote count!

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• Kwesi Atta Sakyi 11 years ago

  Thanks brother KKO

  Thanks brother KKO

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• Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 11 years ago

  A very good article...well reasoned. And I love your poems.
  But Ghana will not develop to the point where it can fully support old people in any meaningful terms. The young must contemplate old age while still young and pla ...
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  A very good article...well reasoned. And I love your poems.
  But Ghana will not develop to the point where it can fully support old people in any meaningful terms. The young must contemplate old age while still young and plan how they will survive in the evening of their lives. They must begin by doing all the good things they are capable of, live healthy lifestyles, save some money and learn lifetime skills from which they may not retire.
  I am a little over fifty years, and I began thinking of what I will do in old age when I was sixteen and saw all these old relatives depending on my seventy-four year old father who was still working hard.
  I will spend my latter years writing books and working my jobs as a lawyer and a teacher until I drop dead. Unless I am struck with some incapacitating disease, I am never going on any damned retirement.
  What you have written is good but quite utopian, insofar as nobody is going to listen. It is therefore the duty of those of us about to grow old to plan for ourselves what we are going to do in our old age. The government and our children will disappoint us if we rely on them.

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• francis kwarteng 11 years ago

  Dear Brothers,
  
  I also believe this is a good article. Great poem.
  
  Thanks to you two for sharing your creative ideas with us.
  
  Thanks.

  Dear Brothers,
  
  I also believe this is a good article. Great poem.
  
  Thanks to you two for sharing your creative ideas with us.
  
  Thanks.

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