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	Podcast:		A Point of View
	Episode:		The Paradox of Growing Old
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:09:46
	Publish Date:		2014-05-09 15:00:00
	Description:		Mary Beard reflects on recent TV programmes and newspaper articles about what's going on in care homes for the elderly. She says she believes that in a few hundred years' time, "our treatment of old people will be as much of a blot on our culture as Bedlam and the madhouses were on the culture of the 18th century". But she also argues that our view of dementia is a sanitized one. She says we have to recognize that dementia can make its sufferers truculent and aggressive...something that most of us - not just care workers on a minimum wage - would find very difficult to deal with. Producer: Adele Armstrong.
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