Originally posted by walesrob@Sep 5 2005, 11:17 AM
One things for sure, I'd hate to grow old in the UK, its disgusting how old people are treated - pushed from pillar to post, shoved around like they are a liability on the state.
Strangly coincidental, but my wife works for a Caring Agency, Corinth, and spends most of her time 'filling in' at old peoples homes. She loves the job, and really enjoys most of the hoimes she works in, but there a couple of places she refuses to go back to, basically because of the way the workers there treat their patients.

She too says she would hate to grow old here, and be dumped into someone elses hands. She has met so many old people who have basically been abandoned by their children. Some are mentally challenged, or just too confused to cope. Some are sweet old people whose bodies have given up before their minds do.

It tears my wife apart to hear some of these lovely old souls tell her they would like to die if they could, just to get some release from the misery of laying in a bed 24/7. Some get a few visitors, some get none, and some plead for my wife to come back and see them because she is so sweet and kind and gentle.

There have been times when I collect my wife in the car and she sits there with tears rolling down her face telling me about her day :unsure:
No, I don't want to grow old and alone in the UK :(