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Most folks want a huge pension, well if that's buys extra time in the Care Home, no thanks, my parents went from the comfort of their own (rented) home, without two pennies to rub together, that was their wish, well done them!
In a great many other countries family used to take care of their elderly themselves. It used to be so in the UK. It should become the norm again unless special care is needed. We have become a more selfish society, happy to dump our responsibilities on governments and through them the taxpayer.
'Used too 'being the operative words.
All this may have been the case once but people in other countries do put their elderly in care homes the same as here .