Yes Annie.
And has anybody thought of how many old, poorly, mentally ill, or those with no families etc, will die before their time, because they have nowhere to go anymore, once all the care/nursing homes have been forced to close down through no staff?
Even those who live in their own homes still, will probably die if carers are not allowed to visit to help them any more, or if so many have left their employment that there are nowhere near enough helpers to go round soon.
Carers are leaving the profession right, left and centre because what with low wages anyway, being forced into doing something against their will (for whatever reasons they have), will be straw that breaks the camels back, and i fear for those who rely on them for their very existence.
It doesn’t matter how much they pay, they cannot recruit enough carers because the need is so high. Families should take more responsibility for their old as they do in other countries. Care homes should only be for those with greatest needs or those with no family, with most care taking place in the home, but our whole societal approach that someone is put in a home and the family get on with their life is part of the problem here. Compartmentalisation of our lives. We have our priorities all wrong.
It’s not just that Annie surely .Houses are tiny these days and there isn’t room and some people in care homes need a lot of personal care and would not like their family members doing it .Moreover not everyone has a family to care for them .
We really ought to just die before we get to that stage .Other countries have care homes just the same as the U.K. everywhere I have been in the world has care homes . These are for people who can afford its usually only the very poor that have their elderly relations in their home and not always even then .
many poor old people live in dreadful straits uncared for and neglected .
Surely that depends on the individual? It’s not about the size of a residence but about attitude. For example “would not like family members doing it” is an interesting insight into our culture of compartmentalisation and putting our lives into clinically sealed boxes. Other (even European) cultures do not have this fear of intimacy.
I mentioned that care homes should be those with the most need or those who do not have family.
Yes part of the issue is that we live so long these days. I read that there is hope for a reversal of dementia, that would make a great difference to being able to remain at home.
