The Worst TIME Covers
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Old Age
How to Help Our Parents
June 2, 1975
Cover Story Excerpt:
Throughout history the aged have occupied a precarious position in society. Some primitive peoples like the Eskimos and other nomads respected the elderly but left them to die when they could no longer care for themselves. Natives of some South Seas islands paddled away from their families—to death—when age overtook them. Nor is the idea of abandoning the elderly unique to primitive societies....Read the full story
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