Care homes costlier Than Eton? Get Me to the true Marigold hotel
The BBC’s actual Marigold hotel showed that it’s that you can imagine to deal with aged individuals with recognize and care – why are we failing so badly at this in the UK?
09 Feb 2016
One motive I liked the true Marigold hotel, which concluded ultimate night time on BBC Two, is as a result of its uproarious solid of well-known pensioners discovered a country where elders are respected, care is excellent and easily reasonably priced and outdated age is something to be savoured as a substitute of feared.
That country is most undoubtedly no longer the uk. Frankly, euthanasia looks as if a cheerful choice in comparison with the dwelling demise that awaits too many of our own senior citizens in extortionate “care” houses.
Sylvester McCoy in the true Marigold lodge.
For the primary time, a nursing house might price more than sending a toddler to Eton.
at the least with the latter you get a world-class training and a fast-track into the cabinet on your cash.
there’s nothing elite concerning the average British care dwelling, which prices an outrageous £35,152 a 12 months, and offers neither rowing nor Greek.
that is set to rise with the introduction, in April, of a nationwide living wage of £7.20 an hour.
Sylvester McCoy, Jan Leeming and Roy Walker with temple offerings.
electorate recommendation warns that tens of hundreds of aged residents are being exploited with the aid of unfair contracts and hidden fees, similar to £50 an hour for the extremely anxious process of accompanying an outdated individual to a doctor’s appointment.
Many residents receive only every week’s discover of rising prices, which forces households into debt as a result of they’ve little choice but to pay up or see Grandma tossed out into the street.
Equally iniquitous is the fact that the care-residence vampires cost larger charges for self-financers – ie prudent individuals who have saved arduous for their outdated age – than those folk whose prices are coated by the state.
Is time to get our cash’s price by means of checking into the actual Marigold hotel?
obviously, nationwide insurance coverage contributions are not as much as meeting the care wants of a inhabitants with a hugely elevated existence expectancy.
I should level out that our government, which is able to’t take respectable care of its elderly, is spending £eleven.7 billion pounds a yr on overseas assist. In 2014, India obtained £279 million from us. Yup. That’s the same united states which treats its old people so significantly better than we do. Time to check into the actual Marigold resort and get our cash’s value?
The BBC’s actual Marigold hotel showed that it’s conceivable to deal with aged people with recognize and care – why are we failing so badly at this in the UK?
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