None of that guarantees that there won't be a crisis of too many elderly people needing too much care sometime in the future, but officials believe that planning is headed in the right direction. I don't want to give a rosy picture. We're going to have to work hard. At least Pennsylvania has a history of worrying about what it's going to do about its population of older people in the future. Neighbors, church, friends.
Neighbors really do take care of each other.
I see that every day in these little towns where there are few services. The overall elderly population will shrink in numbers. Among that dependent population are individuals who left Pennsylvania after retirement, only to return to be near relatives and friends. Demographers say Pennsylvania is a state that loses more people in their 60s than it gains, but after that age, relatively few people leave, and just as many in the older group return, although they often have diminished health and resources. Still, most older people don't move away at all.