Why do older Americans prefer traveling to helping out after retirement?

This question belongs to a No. I don’t understand America. There are big differences in the way of thinking and behavior between East and West.

We think people typically retire at age 60. Americans don't think they have to retire at 60. There are many people in their 70s and 80s who are still working. I see that American flight attendants on planes are mostly older people. The United States has laws that do not discriminate against the elderly in employment.

Many of our elderly people like to travel together and dance square dances after retirement. After retirement, elderly people in the United States take pleasure in resting, doing yard work, and planting flowers and trees. If the trip lasts for a few months or even half a year, there will be very few people traveling to the elderly within ten days.

Americans become good friends with their parents after their children get married. If parents are invited to look after their children, first, they must pay for their parental care. Second, Americans believe that grandparents tend to spoil their children, which is not conducive to their growth.

Why do so many old people have so many serious diseases and still travel around?

The questioner asked, why do so many elderly people still have to travel when they are seriously ill? This only shows that the questioner has a problem with his understanding of serious illnesses. A few days ago, he saw an article on the headlines saying that a 60-year-old man in Beijing had terminal liver cancer. The doctor gave him a maximum of three months to live and required him to be hospitalized for conservative treatment. I believe many people will be frightened when they learn that they have this disease, but this old man is different. Because he still had three months to live, he took his wife to travel everywhere. His wife was also worried at the time, but still followed him out. One is that the wife tries to take care of her husband’s rest and diet. Three months later, the old man did not feel any discomfort. The wife tells her husband whether to go back to the hospital for a checkup. The old man said, do you think I am sick? They continued playing and returned to Beijing a year later. Their wives accompanied the old man to the hospital for a check-up, and all the liver cancer lesions were gone. This shows that an optimistic attitude is very beneficial to the recovery of the disease! I also encountered an incident. In the early 1980s, an employee in my department had a punctured lung, and I personally took him to the tuberculosis hospital. He was discharged from the hospital and recuperated at home half a year later. A few months later, the district's tuberculosis prevention and control center came to inspect the factory. All employees line up for lung fluoroscopy. Everyone in the factory has a record card, and records are kept every year. At that time, the employee with a punctured lung brought someone else's card by mistake. Through perspective, the employee who took the wrong card became lungs. The employee who suffered a punctured lung was so happy that he asked to return to work immediately. Half a year later, the sick employee went to a relative's American hospital for a checkup. It was found that there was no lung perforation at all, because lung perforation lesions will exist for a long time. The judgment of the hospital's tuberculosis prevention and treatment center was definitely wrong. Only one employee in our department had a punctured lung, and I accompanied him to the hospital for a checkup. Through the X-ray, it was found that the perforated lung lesions were still there, but his lung disease was cured, which fully shows that an optimistic attitude is beneficial to the treatment of the disease. The employee who faked a perforated lung was frightened for more than half a year. It was really miserable. He has had a son for several months. He doesn’t dare to hold him at home, and he doesn’t dare to come into contact with other people because lung disease is contagious. What's worse is that for more than half a year, he took a lot of lung medication every day.