Re: Care home fees reform 2017
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I replied in your other thread but will repost here too...Re: Care home fees reform 2017
I'm always puzzled as to why people think that their own money shouldn't be used to look after them in old age. If you intend to leave the cash to your offspring, surely they should look after you - not the state? Why should someone else pick up the bill? After all, nothing's for free - somebody has to pay. Who do you suggest? Are we only socialists when it comes to our final years, and money-grabbing Tories in our youth? After all, if you have ample savings, it means that you had more than enough to live on at some time in your life, and saved the excess for a 'rainy day' i.e old age. I would be happy to have this dilemma explained to me please.Re: Care home fees reform 2017
I agree totally with you 2wheeler! The reason people used to give for investing in property and saving was "to look after us in our old age" or "for a rainy day"! Why leave money to people who can't or won't look after you? there are two houses in spitting distance of here that have been empty for years, because the owners are in care homes & won't sell to pay for their care. Both are becoming derelict and will be bought, no doubt by the developers who have bought the last "empty house" next door to them which was an investment belonging to people who never lived in it! My ex lives in his parents house rent free so that they have free care in sheltered accommodation! People are living longer so by the time they go their children already have property or if not they can use what's left after the care is paid for to put a deposit on somewhere. This practice of hoarding property is helping to cause the housing shortage.Re: Care home fees reform 2017
I'm not sure your attitude is in keeping with the ethos of the original post.Re: Care home fees reform 2017
Well if they sell their properties I'm sure they will get the care they deserve and enjoy it, instead of them using state funds which could give better care the unfortunate folk who haven't been able for some reason to buy a house or save money through no fault of their own.
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