Residential care costs

[shaunbhoy]

Hmmmm, my new plan B could be "Minestrone's care home for the English IT Contractor"

I could arrange for a guy in a clown suit to come in and speak in a ruskie accent about formatting hard drives, tulipe search engines and what he had for lunch.

You could call it the Harold Shipman Centre for Geriatric Care.

[tim123]

It is free in Scotland and it should be in England.

The country is quite willing to pay money to educate you to do a lifetime of service and tax paying but when you retire they are quite willing to forget you existed. Cost should not come into the question, it is a basic desicion that requires morals that this country lost years ago.

I don't entirely agree.

Morally, children should (as far as reasoable) look after their parents in return for what the parent has given them, and if the can't be bothered, I fail to see why the taxpayer should pick up the tab.

I accept that there is a point at which the parent becomes too "unwell" for the child to care for them, but if the state only had to pay for care at this point the bill would be manageable. But currently we have a situation where lazy children just dump their parents onto the state as soon as they become a little bit difficult and expect someone else to pay, - this is unafordable.

tim