Longer life spans and improvements in the health of elder people suggest that people over the age of 65 can continue to live full and active lives In what ways can society benefit from the contribution that old people can make

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Longer life spans and improvements in the health of elder people suggest that people over the age of 65 can continue to live full and active lives. In what ways can society benefit from the contribution that old people can make?

There is voluminous articles about how young people is the driving force of the society progress. Unfortunately, seldom so those articles focus on the contribution of the elderly people. Pensioners, on the contrary, are often considered as an unwelcome group that always require to the taken cared of. However, contributions of the old tend to be easily neglected or forgotten. Actually, our society benefits from the old people in various ways.

To begin with, the elderly people helps to preserve the traditional culture and local customs. Facing the increasingly integrated world, the young peop...

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There is voluminous articles about how young people is the driving force
There are voluminous articles about how young people are the driving force

seldom so those articles focus on the contribution of the elderly people.
seldom do those articles focus on the contribution of the elderly people.

the young people has been assimilated
the young people have been assimilated

older people brings about cohesion and harmony
older people bring about cohesion and harmony

Sentence: It is true that young and middle-aged group tend to go extreme and conduct radical behavior.
Description: The fragment group tend to is rare
Suggestion: Possible agreement error: Replace tend with verb, past tense

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Avg. Sentence Length: 15.15 21.0
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