"Handling of the needs of the elderly should be strictly a FAMILY issue, not an issue for all of society. If you refuse to help out grandma, don't ask me to."
Yes, it should be. However, many old people have no families, or their families are far away. The woman stuck in her bathtub cannot install a grab rail for herself, now can she?
Here's a good job for the local churches, I'd say. I know that if a neighbor of mine needed a grab rail in the bathroom, I'd be happy to buy one and install it for her.
And, since everyone's really my neighbor, I don't begrudge these folks their grab rail.
It's easy to say that family should do it, but each situation is different. Many old people have nobody to help them at all.
Why don't you volunteer? Ask the old people around you if there's any way you can help them.
On a personal note, my wife and I are moving from CA to Minnesota to be near her parents, who are 75 and 83. I feel the family connection very strongly. My own parents are both 79, but they have another son and daughter who live near them. My in-laws don't. So we're packing up and moving our lives to help them in their old age.
I think Jesus had something to say about helping those around us.