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Friends. Family. Building facilities. Government programs.
The simple fact is that at some point, people just can't be completely independent. It's the nature of growing old. This is only really a problem because we have such a strict independence culture, where if you can't do for yourself, you may as well just die, society doesn't have time for you.
If we recontextualize this, and see growing old and more feeble not as some personal failing and instead as the symbol of a long life, if we start looking out for those around us, and if we start building up the facilities we need to allow people to gracefully enter elder-hood without stigma, we'd all be a bit better off.