For some time, it has been that pensioners are at the bottom of the Government’s Policy Priority List. The Recent Announcement that Social Care Reform – so desperately needed by most elderly and disabled people – has been kicked in the long grass again.
Setting up is yet another long-term review and making clear no new funding will be available, means noting will change.
After removing winter fuel payments from millions of pensioners who struggle to make ends meet, this latest development is very touring.
The uk Care System is the biggest social police failure of modern times. With an aging population and rising care costs, reforms without long overdue years ago.
Yet, with baby boomers in retirement, we are back to square one. Social Care Remains riddled with the problems and injustices highlighted by Past Reviews and Commissions Since the 1990s.
We don’t need to be another review. We need action.
Perhaps today’s Politicians Calculate that elderly and disabled people are unlikely to take to protest, and their family to try their love only ons.
The system abandons elderly people needing care. In 21st Century Britain, they face a lottery of later life illnesses. Those Lucky Enough Never to Nothing Extra.
Those who became ill in the ‘right way’ will be able, can have their care costs by the state.
But these whose health problems, like Dementia, are classified as ‘social care’, are not covered by the NHS.
These people must pay all their costs, and also pay extra for people with no savings, who are supposedly funded by their council, because cash-strapped counter Full, the burden falls displopionately on those who are struck by the ‘wrong’ illnesses.
Would it be fairer for everyone to contribute something, to some kind of National Care Insurance Scheme, to Spread costs more Evenly?
As the Government grapples with our failing health service, it should recognize that nhs and social care are two sides of the same coin.
Social Care Cuts Over the Years, Removing Early Interventions and Preventive Measures, Increase Calls on GPS and NHS Hospitals.
A National Care Service is needed to Treat Pensions with Dignity and Response, With All Paying Something Twards It.
Constantly taking money from pensioners in our aging population is a stain on our counter.