Is the idea of long-term care for the elderly different from culture to culture. How and why?

Also, who should have the responsibility to take care of the aged population - families, governments, or both. Explain.

It certainly varies from culture to culture.

Personnally I am from the Latin American culture and the elderly are not seen as a burden to bear, neither is getting older seen as negative. So a lot of adult children have their parents living with them and they help with childcare and help around the house etc.
When they get sick or very infirm, since most Latin American households is common for extended family to live together everyone chips in the care.

When my grandmother, got sick that is exactly what happened, she was living with us, so was my bachelor uncle and my aunt w/ her two kids and everyone did their part one way or the other.

Unfortunately not everyone is so lucky. IMHO, it should be both the family and the local government setting up programs for the care of the elderly, I work in healthcare and see many of these people are almost thrown away and forgotten in some nursing home, their family coming to see them very seldom. Its a shame.

Everyone should take care of the old. They made the place what it is for us.

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