Why are aging societies, and the individuals who live in them, ...

[viki]

Why are aging societies, and the individuals who live in them, victims of their own success?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The 1919 constitutional amendment that outlawed the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in the United States failed because __________.
 
  a. of civil disobedience
  b. the government continued to sell alcohol
  c. the religiosity that once supported such a law vanished after World War I
  d. people were allowed to distill their own alcoholic beverages

[vkodali]

Answer to Question 1

The multiple social challenges that they facechronic disease, financial burdens, and issues around an extended period of end-of-life careexist precisely because of increases in life expectancy over the last century. The rise of chronic disease as the cause of death, rather than an acute event like a heart attack, creates new challenges for caring for people at the end of their lives. Chronic diseases generally unfold slowly, so those suffering from them can expect to experience a series of health emergencies that ultimately culminate in their death. That said, most societies are still committed to caring for a person until they die on their own. The United States has a culture and religious traditions that condition its people to operate around a heroic model of medicine, where we expect doctors as well as other caregivers right down to the family itself to do everything they can to prolong liveseven when the quality of such a life is suffering for the most part.

Answer to Question 2

a