Author Archives: Maureen
Let’s take the fear out of paying for elderly care
The three main parties must agree a deal that will put an end to 60 years of political failure.
By Andrew Dilnot
8:09PM GMT 16 Jan 2012
There is something very wrong about our attitudes to older people. We hear again and again about the “burden” of ageing, but we should be celebrating the fact that we are living longer. It is one of the great triumphs of the past century that we can expect to live longer than our grandparents, as a result of higher standards of living and better health care. So why are we so gloomy in the face of something that should make us happy?
Blue Mood Month
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Welfare Reform Bill
‘We won’t go back to the work house’
‘We won’t go back to the work house’ – a melodramatic slogan maybe, but one that captures the sense that many feel, that the Welfare Reform Bill, currently going through its first reading in the House of Lords before becoming law next month, represents a major step in the dismantling of state welfare, a return to a darker, pre-Beveridge age of a ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor.
Certainly it was a slogan that summed up the feelings of those gathered opposite the House of Lords on Wednesday, many of them living with disabilities, single parents and carers, a coalition of the dispossessed who feel victimised by the Bill.
