04-07-2011, 05:56 PM
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Any thoughts on the Dilnott Commission Report
The findings were made public today.....http://www.dilnotcommission.dh.gov.u...ission-report/
The sad fact is there are (we are told) too many elderly people in this country for our ailing economy to support.
As I live alone I don't have a problem with selling my home to fund my care should I need to go into a nursing home.
This would be a last resort though, I would prefer to live in a one room hovel and to have my independence than to live in any kind of communal accommodation.
04-07-2011, 06:22 PM
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Re: Any thoughts on the Dilnott Commission Report
Unfortunately Meg, I am one of the morons that would cut some of the foreign aid, to fund a system that looked after us properly when our steps falter....as a country we should be ashamed of a system where other nation's peoples are more important than our own.Did any of us actually vote for this?
04-07-2011, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by galty
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If I become infirmed and have to go in a home why if I have savings and a house should any one else pay for my care. I was brought up to pay my way, just cause I am an old sod should not make any differance if I have assets.
But what about if you have a wife / husband living in the House ?
Should they be made homeless to pay for your care/ treatment ?
04-07-2011, 08:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Topaz
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But what about if you have a wife / husband living in the House ?Should they be made homeless to pay for your care/ treatment ?
If you have a wife or husband it does not apply.
04-07-2011, 08:43 PM
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The same thing is happening over here, people are living longer and they want to increase the retirement age.It seems now we are to be penalised for living longer, surely that was the whole point of a clean modern health service-living longer. for years they were telling us to give up this and don't eat that, smoking will take 10 years off your life etc., (maybe if they had not introduced the smoking ban the problem would have solved itself). the message is clear to me, just die and do your Country a favour.
04-07-2011, 10:36 PM
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If I have anything to do with it I will not go into a home. The doctors surgery' are full of old people living on pills for this and pills for that.I live in a Park for the over 55s and they are boasting about how many times they see the doctor , how many pills they take etc.Its ridiculous.05-07-2011, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by galty
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If you have a wife or husband it does not apply.
05-07-2011, 12:13 PM
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I live alone & will try my damnedest to only leave here in a box. I have no intention of inflicting myself on my family. My 91 year old neighbour who felt the same, has just gone into a "retirement home." Because she has little or no savings & her flat is owned by her son she pays nothing. I have visited her & it's OK but I'd hate it!! I felt, before she went in there, that the social services were trying to keep her at home - because of the cost.Plantman, I agree with foreign aid. These people are not more important than us but their lives are as important as ours. I'd hate to think this country could stand aside & watch others starve. I know this country has people on the 'bread line' but the few that I know can afford cigarettes and alcohol. One, who I have helped because she has a three year old, smokes £35 per week & was drinking (she says she's stopped) three bottles of cheap wine per night.
Sorry to go off topic.
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