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Old 26-11-2017, 10:44 PM #74
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Originally Posted by Cherie View Post
Why would they be a burden? what a negative way to look at it, just bizarre rationale


They feel like a burden, it's documented now that the elderly are concerned about becoming a burden, I don't deny it's damning for our 'civilised' society to have it's aged population feeling this way but it doesn't make it any less true.
It's not a bizarre rationale, that's just a way of curbing the debate by inferring one side is being irrational... I'm not in the scenario I painted earlier should an elderly or infirm relative be dependent on them as a family how would they cope?... That family is not dissimilar to 1000s of families across the UK.

Is is such an ask to have a fully functional social care system to take the stress from both the elderly and the families?
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