One of the consequences of improved medical care is that people are living longer and life expectancy is increasing, is this a curse or blessing?

Modern medical facilities and technological advancements in the healthcare sector have brought marvels to the world. We have cures for deadly diseases and medical researchers are working with our genes to prevent diseases even before we are born- marvellous indeed. As a result, people these days have an increased lifespan and to many this as an alarming trend. I, on the contrary, welcome this advancement and believe that increasing life expectancy has more merits than disadvantages.

To begin with, with an increasing life expectancy, people these days remain more active. They have better diet habits, exercise schedule and tailored routines that enable them to contribute to the society even in their old age. Moreover, the government, in most of the countries, has raised the retirement age and people in their old age are no longer a burden, rather an active workforce.  To cite an example, professors, researchers, lawmakers, writers and such many professionals have a vast experience and could contribute even more than the youngsters in their respective fields. Thus, when a physicist discovers a ground-breaking theory in his 70s, we should thank the enhanced medical research and treatment.

Many opine that increasing life expectancy escalate the older population and they are a weight for the society. This, in my opinion, is a hypocrite thought and should be wiped out from our mind. As the number of working parents is enhancing, grandparents are the last hope for the children. Older people are doing us a favour by taking most of our family burdens.

To conclude, older population in no way a load for us. They are actively contributing to our society. Thanks to the enhanced medical facilities that let us live longer and be part of the progress.

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Average: 7.7 (1 vote)
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, moreover, so, thus, as a result, in my opinion, on the contrary, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.5418719212 104% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 6.10837438424 49% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 8.36945812808 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 5.94088669951 84% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 20.9802955665 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 31.9359605911 94% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.75862068966 122% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1492.0 1207.87684729 124% => OK
No of words: 288.0 242.827586207 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18055555556 5.00649968141 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 3.92707691288 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93741791322 2.71678728327 108% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 139.433497537 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565972222222 0.580463131201 98% => OK
syllable_count: 468.9 379.143842365 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.71428571429 175% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 3.65517241379 164% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 12.6551724138 119% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.5024630542 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.147907231 50.4703680194 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.4666666667 104.977214359 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2 20.9669160288 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8 7.25397266985 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 6.9802955665 172% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 2.91625615764 69% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.148135191848 0.242375264174 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0492687554435 0.0925447433944 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0432757227514 0.071462118173 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0906369328697 0.151781067708 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0197760423961 0.0609392437508 32% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 12.6369458128 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.1260098522 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.9458128079 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 11.5310837438 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.32886699507 109% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 55.0591133005 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.94827586207 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.3980295567 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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