Jared Diamond : How societies can grow old better

Jared Diamond at TED2013  (transcript)
How societies can grow old better
Summary
This, my summary must be the biggest summary in this year because I've just thought about this problem. In fact, Japanese society is too good for elderly people and it has to be urgently started solving because the Japanese population is aging really rapidly.
I am very surprised about the big differences between the U.S. and Japan in this situation.
First, l will summarize this article. It'll be better to be divided into traditional societies 1) and modern societies. 2) And then we will understand the speaker’s suggestions. 3)
Next, l want to write current Japanese circumstances 4) and last, my opinions but I want it to be how societies can grow younger better and elderly better. 5)

1)
First, the speaker talks about growing older in traditional societies.
By the way, the speaker lives in a large and modern society which is America.
In the story, traditional societies are traditional, small, and tribal societies where surprisingly seemed to be more diverse than our modern, recent, and big societies. It means that there are big differences among traditional societies about the treatment of the elderly. There had been much worse and much better also.
The worst example of traditional societies is that elderly people are rid of by neglecting, not feeding, not caring until dying, and killing them.
The reasons are helpless but elderly people had to do their own parents and they know that it happens to them.
It's because nomadic, Arctic and deserts areas are unsteady, younger people who can shift camp have to be survived and food that is always not enough there has to be provided only to them.

However,  there are traditional societies where elderly people are cared for, fed, and they remain valuable. It's areas which are farming societies, sedentary, and need elderly people's knowledge, experiences, and culture about politics, medicine, religion, songs, making and producing. The reasons might be not to have letters, but those were important.

2)
What about next that is about modern societies where the speaker lives in?
We see that America is a big country and has dreams, however, he tells us that elderly Americans are in a low status and at a big disadvantage in job applications and in hospitals but they end up living separately from their children, relatives, and friends. And then some of them live in separate retirement homes.
The reasons for the low status of the elderly in the U.S. are placing a high value on work, 1) emphasizing on the virtues of self-reliance and independence, 2) and worshiping of youth.3)

This difference between traditional societies and modern societies must come from becoming remarkable longer lives and better health in old age. The changes were better, though, there has been a big burden for young people.

By living alone, by retiring from the workforce, and by changing rapidly technology, elderly people lose social ties, they don’t have anything to do, and then they are put in the low status.

3)
The speaker’s suggestions for improving the value of elderly people are that entrusting caring for children because mothers have their work, creating more opportunities to listen to elderly people to avoid risks because they must have a lot of experiences, and understanding human relationships from elderly people must be huge values.

The most important thing is to learn with respect. Tribal or modern societies shouldn't be scorned, however, shouldn’t be romanticized. Just, miserable modern societies of elderly people must be changed and he is a writer who writes about this problem.

4)
The story really surprised me because my father told me in the past, that Japan was the country where elderly people felt small to live but in America and other countries, elderly people enjoyed their lives with hobbies. Japan had to become like that, however, Japanese circumstances are now big improving for elderly people. They receive a high pension, create their positions in the workforce but they don’t do the work, control politics and education not to make Japan better but to build waste organizations not to lose their positions but it’s used our taxes. The cost of those, pension and hospital are obviously lacking and the Japanese debt is bigger, though, no one does anything.

5)
Why has those world appeared?
My opinion is that human thoughts are out of date. It’s both countries which are Japan and America also.
The speaker also tells us that 60 years later, what elderly people learned when they were children is no longer useful because technology is rapidly changing today. Thus all people have to continue learning to live better always.  Even children will face that what they learned is unnecessity soon. It's faster than we face because of technology growing but it can't be stopped. We have to change our thoughts by learning.

The thoughts that younger people have to care about elderly people and money and high positions make elderly people happy and jobs give people enough money must be nonsense.
We have to learn that from learning, graduating is no longer.
Learning must teach us that it'll be better that 90 years elderly people care about 70 years because they are healthy. There are many happy people who don't have enough money and high positions, robots take away our jobs definitely and how societies can grow not only old better but also all better.

Words in this story
vary /verb/ be different
fluctuate /verb/ change differ shift alter
allocation /noun/ assignment, allotment, quota