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IS THE TREATMENT OF OUR ELDERLY A TOTAL SCANDAL?

Thursday May 15,2008

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A DEVOTED couple died in a suspected suicide pact because they feared being separated for the first time in their 60-year marriage.

Tom Hughes, 82, and his wife Nancie, 86, were discovered lying next to each other in their retirement flat.

Mrs Hughes’s health was failing and the pair were worried they would be moved to different care homes.

She faced being sent to a specialist home for dementia sufferers, while Mr Hughes feared being moved to a mainstream care home.

The suspected double suicide followed an official visit from social services to their home at Abergavenny, South Wales, last weekend.

DO YOU THINK OUR TREATMENT OF THE ELDERLY IS A TOTAL SCANDAL?

SHOULD ELDERLY COUPLES BE KEPT TOGETHER IN CARE HOMES?

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YES VERY MUCH SO AND WORST OF IT IS, IS THAT THE..................

02.06.08, 3:21am

Yes very much so and worst of it is, is that the government must think anyone over the age of sixty as being senile and not needing decent food. They seem to think that the state pension is more than adequate to feed people of this age group and that they should only buy the very basics.

Then we have the high cost of energy that many pensioners can't afford. Some pensioners with health problems need to keep warm but the government could not care less. Maybe all the three main parties think that if they keep pensioners living below the poverty line that it will kill them off and so wont need to be funded or in reciept of a state pension anymore.

The TV licence for instance should be scrapped once a person reaches seventy years of age and the telephone line rental for this age group should be paid for by the state other countries such as Ireland do it so why can't our government?

• Posted by: Nimue • Report Comment

OUR PENSIONERS HAVE PAID FOR CRADLE TO GRAVE CARE.

28.05.08, 8:34pm

This countries elderly people have spent their working lives paying taxes and what were mandatory N.I. contributions for what should now be cradle to grave care.

Unfortunately the former Thatcher Government initiated rolling back the "role of the state" in the 1980's, and New Labour have embraced the Thatcherite ethos from their general election victory in 1997, todate.

I believe that our pensioners should all receive free residential care funded by the state, and that they should also receive a much higher state pension linked to increases in national prosperity through the earnings link.

If you also believe that our elderly people deserve a decent state pension, please sign my group's Petition on the Downing Street Web Site, here is the direct link to that Petition,-

h t t p : / / petitions.pm.gov.uk/TheUkInEurope/

Thank you.

• Posted by: Robinhood • Report Comment

IS THE TREATMENT OF OUR ELDERLY A TOTAL SCANDAL?

22.05.08, 2:12am

You bet its a scandal, but just wait a few weeks until the Crewe bi-elections die down, the next bombshell is set to announced. Wonderful Brown is now giving councils the right to sell your house if you need to go into a care home, but not in Scotland, no its different there, they pay for it or should I say, WE PAY FOR IT. You will no be able to pass on a property to family members if you have to go into care, though a surviving spouse may remain in the property until they die, then the council will snatch it.
Now what does that say. To me it says that they want you go out in this climate and buy a house, pay through the nose for the rest of your life and when you get older and need to cared for, they will simply snatch your property and all the equity, but not in Scotland. Brown and most of his cronies are Scottish aren't they, funny that.
This case in discussion regarding the devoted couple, now where in all of this PC crap and all the do-gooders that rule this country, where does basic human rights come into play, where are all the lawyers now. Are we all going to continue to sit on our backsides and take this rubbish or are we going to get out in the streets and do something. Government, and that includes local government, need to understand that they have a duty to the very people that elected them, not to do everything possible to walk all over us, tell me where this 'Democracy' nonesense comes into it. Truth is, its a word that they simply have no idea of its meaning and I am sick and tired of hearing 'we will learn from this'. Democray and Respect, two words that should be stricken from the english language because absolutely nobody understands the meaning of them.

• Posted by: lekkie • Report Comment

WHAT ABOUT THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE ELDERLY

20.05.08, 7:17pm

I notice that the Human Rights Lawyers are conspicuous by their absence in cases such as this. Perhaps these people are not newsworthy or trendy enough. The Government and society as a whole should be ashamed at the way elderly people are treated. They are by and large treated as a nuisance and an inconvenience in today's society so it is little wonder that Social Services and Local Authorities feel they have carte blanche to do just as they will. There is no public outcry at the inhuman treatment of many elderly people who suffer dreadfully in their final years. The small amount of objections that are made are not countrywide and appear mainly in publications such as this. There is a danger of becoming too complacent and having an I'm alright attitude especially if you are the right side of 50 but If we keep ignoring these dreadful happenings what will be next? Compulsory euthanasia? Wake. up Britain with luck you will all be old one day.

• Posted by: Globetrottinggranny • Report Comment

IT ALL WRONG

20.05.08, 6:06pm

the government should feel utterly ashamed ,
our elderly are so poorly treated its disgraceful.
some of these people have fought for their country, they have lived through some of the roughest times in our history and yet they are treated no better than third class,

• Posted by: jessica • Report Comment