Our life journey, in general, is closely defined by the way we understand the meaning of why we coexist and deal with its challenges. As we develop the "inspiration economy", we could say that nearly all of the challenges we have faced are opportunities that help us to discover the rest of our journey. In this note paper, we explore how being faced with the opportunity of being a close carer for an aging parent with dementia brought intangible discoveries that changed our insight of the meaning of the rest of our life journey.

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International Journal of Management (IJM)
Volume 13, Issue 7, July 2022, pp. 20-23, Article ID: IJM_13_07_003
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VISUALISING AGING PARENTS & THEIR
CLOSE CARERS LIFE JOURNEY IN AGING
ECONOMY
Mohamed Buheji
International Inspiration Economy Project- Bahrain
Amna Buheji
Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain
ABSTRACT
Our life journey, in general, is closely defined by the way we understand the
meaning of why we coexist and deal with its challenges. As we develop the "inspiration
economy", we could say that nearly all of the challenges we have faced are opportunities
that help us to discover the rest of our journey. In this note paper, we explore how being
faced with the opportunity of being a close carer for an aging parent with dementia
brought intangible discoveries that changed our insight of the meaning of the rest of
our life journey.
Key words: Aging, Elderly Parents, Aging Parents, Aging Economy, Close Carer,
Inspiration Economy, Future Foresight, Socioeconomic Impact, Extended Family,
Quality of Life
Cite this Article: Mohamed Buheji and Amna Buheji, Visualising Aging Parents &
their Close Carers Life Journey in Aging Economy, International Journal of
Management (IJM), 13(7), 2022, pp. 20-23.
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1. INTRODUCTION
This note paper investigates how close caring for our elderly parents make us visualise the rest
of our journey. The paper re-emphasise the importance of the role of the kin towards close
caring of the aging parents, as it has never been as important as today. The turbulence in the
economy, the socioeconomic status, the socio-political tensions and besides the COVID-19
pandemic have accelerated this importance. This drives us to foresight the challenges, besides
the opportunities that the aging economy could bring to our life through realising our role to
our loved ones. This moment of truth once realised our human life would be developed and
advanced at an accelerated rate that had never been precedented before.

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Imagine a life without old age; what kind of life would it be. What values will this life hold?
Will our lives still have meaning? Of course, it wouldn't be. Therefore, we need to address the
socio-economic impact of the future days when the increase of the elderly who live more than
a quarter or perhaps a third of their lives could flourish if their close carers are fully prepared.
The United Nations (2019) estimated that the world population will reach 10 billion people
by 2050, compared to 8 billion people at the present time. But most importantly, the statistical
studies indicate that it is expected that more than 16% of these are in the elderly (over 65 years
of age). Today, there are approximately 25 elderly or old people for every 100 people of
working age, while it is expected that the world in 2050 will have at least 50 elderly people for
every 100 working people. The reality of this challenge, requires that we build hardiness in
coming generations through understanding the importance of close caring and how build
tolerance in their productive life.
2. PREPARING OUR COMMUNITIES FOR AGING ECONOMY
As we approach the aging economy, many of us will have to have the flexibility to work from
home to supervise and care for our aging parents or relatives. This means we need to re-evaluate
how we approach the quality of health and psychological care and what type of health insurance
costs, or taxes should be introduced in relevance to the pension fund. This is an equation that is
important to the societies stability and development. Unless we start doing something about
these measures, we could distract our life, maybe in a similar way as the pandemic did.
Failure to prepare properly for the upcoming aging economy, will lead to a decrease in the
percentage of years quality of life that an individual lives, which would be reflected in their
ability to deal with more complex economic and social issues too. This, in turn, will lead to a
further rise in interest rates on sales of products and services, and this, of course, will lead to
deflation and possibly depression in the long run. So, if we want to maintain sound productivity,
the current systems of work must change.
3. ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF EXTENDED FAMILY IN AGING
ECONOMY
Among the important concepts that will contribute to preparing for the transition to an aging
economy are the return to extended families, work from home, and the application of the basics
of self-sufficiency approaches. Teaching such a lifestyle in the educational curricula would
ensure that we have a generation more dedicated to close caring and realise its benefits to
themselves and their community. Failing to address close caring needs would weaken the
appropriate family support for elderly parents over the next decade, will have repercussions on
the social economy and even would broaden the problems of mental health, not only for the
elderly, but even for adults, youth and adolescents.
This note calls for raising the capacity of all stakeholders to what can make a difference in
the lives and quality of our elderly parents. This is a challenge and a fundamental need to
anticipate the requirements of the transition towards an "aging economy", where elderly parents
will be the leading group that sets the moral and then economic priorities of the society. It is an
economy that requires closeness to actions of the heart and goodwill. Besides, it is an economy
that requires a lot of pauses and reflections on the "meaning of life" for our elderly parents from
an empathetic and socioeconomic perspective.

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4. EMPATHETIC LIFESTYLE AS PART OF PREPAREDNESS FOR
AGING ECONOMY
Happiness in the future life will be made more possible with empathy-based design, and
intelligent learning through practice that sharpens our decision-making frameworks. Therefore,
the author calls for more research that will develop a variety of tested communication models
with aging parents, which will play its role in reducing the unfortunate health, psychological or
mental illnesses related to aging. Therefore, we recommend understanding parents' pre-aging
lifestyle and different demographics in order to enhance our preparedness for what's to come.
In order to manage the economy of aging, the author advocates involving both young and
old in projects that address social, and economic issues which offer creative solutions to same
type of problems. Another alternative to engaging young people with older people is to create
storytelling practices that help bridge the gap through the use of both neuroscience and social
capital. The author believes that storytelling can be an important tool for community
development.
The challenges experienced by the elderly, such as loneliness, or what leads to depression,
need to be more investigated, in order to build the self-confidence of elderly parents. It is
recommended to continue attempts to treat short- or long-term memories, in addition to
evaluating their cognitive performance monthly or quarterly. The impact of social changes on
the lives of elderly parents is related to the importance of determining the type of interventions
when caring for them.
The author advocates preserving the human dignity of elderly parents by focusing on their
fluid thinking level, which enhances their memory and cognitive ability. This would raise the
aging parents' ability to compensate for the psychological challenges they may face when they
become more lonely or mentally inactive.
5. CONCLUDING NOTE
In order to maximize their functional, productive, or motor independence, aging parents need
to follow a health screening strategy, and get support to maintain daily routines, including
playing games with their close carers. When we realize what limits the autonomy of elderly
parents, we could explore more about what and how their working memories were fulfilled or
sometimes overshadows their cognitive reasoning. This exercise would help us visualise our
life journey, as we help our loved ones to pass the rest of their life journey with fewer hurdles.
A fate in our hands today, more than ever before.
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