When the weather is hot, the elderly get tired before the children. The health of the elderly exposed to the heat for a long time is badly established.
Not long ago, I was reading Professor Paul Krugman's "The Return of Depression Economics" and saw something impressive. Among the causes of Japan's long-term recession, Japan's aging population was briefly mentioned. It seemed to me that for some reason the expression "powerful cause" was omitted.
Ahead of South Korea's presidential election, presidential candidates were unexpectedly challenged by problems such as internalism, regionalism and narcissism. There seemed to be a problem of not being able to overcome the negative effects of age and convention even though there were many examples that could not be.
When North Korean President Kim Jong Un took power, I welcomed him in consideration of inter-Korean relations. Based on his long experience of observing the negative effects of age, he expected to make a relatively expansionary judgment.
I always agonize and observe the fact that I and people's thoughts should be wary of the phenomenon of being stuck in the past and convention as middle-aged people get older. I have seen many people who have overcome such times in their lives or in politics and economics. In fact, the future depends on the elderly. Older people who do not give in to age and convention will expand the future of their descendants.