Yes it is a diabolical disgrace how we treat the elderly

My parents are now in their mid to late 70's they have been mugged several times getting on an off buses and robbed of their pensions by these heartless thugs.
They find it hard to live on their old age pension, so I do what I can to help them, often leaving myself short but that is ok that is the way it should be.
They cannot afford private medical treatment so they have had o endure long waits for surgery on long waiting lists, which breaks my heart. So much so I have now studied and passed several courses in alternative medicine and I am thank fully able to help them with alternative treatments, but if this were not the case, heaven only knows how they would have coped with their illnesses.
They dread going into hospital having recently visited an elderly neighbour in hospital which they said stunk of foul odours and was filthy and a health risk.
I am now looking at seeing how I can afford to pay for them to join a private health care scheme, to protect them from such a plight, but I guess this is by design of the government looking to save on NHS running costs perhaps to afford themselves huge pay rises which I suspect is something every government has so far been guilty of, amidst the attitude of many of them that the elderly are now living too long.
My parents could not afford to go into a private nursing home as they have no savings and so I recetnly bought a 4 bedroomed house, when I am a single parent with one daughter age 17, just so that if my parents need looking after there will be room for them in my home if they prefer that to a home, and since several of our relatives suffered abuse and neglect, even cruelty in nursing homes, both council run and privately run ones, I would not be happy for them to end up in a home anyway as I am sure they wouldn't either.
But what about the poor souls who do not have supportive family?
Those who do not have such support are doomed for sure to a pitiful and endangered end and that has to be prevented at all cost.
More money should go to the care of the elderly, many of whom risked their lives in the past two world wars for us, we owe them our own lives and far more respect than they are getting.
The way the poor elderly people are treated is a total disgrace and travesty.
I say give the pensioners £250 per week each in line with the average working wage and bring in more caring and trusted community support to help them and protect them and close down and sack those who ill treat the elderly in homes and hospitals.
The care of the elderly is Dickensian and needs a complete review by people with a bit more heart and respect for them.
If I were in power they would not suffer the way they do now that is for certain.

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