Every minute in the UK someone dies. That’s over half a million people a year, but many of us are still not receiving good end-of-life care or having our dying wishes met. This can cause unnecessary pain and suffering.
Tag Archives: Older care
End-of-life care should be a positive experience
People deserve to have their end-of-life care wishes met
With the number of dying each year expected to increase, the government needs to make the right to a good death a priority
-
Eve Richardson
- The Guardian,
Providing home-based end-of-life care should be a positive experience.
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.
Only way is up: the current system of care is an embarrassment
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?
The Archbishop of York says our elderly men and women must not suffer
Elderly care: Commentary by the Archbishop of York
This year, and for many years to come, the demands on the national purse will be huge.
The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu
By Dr John Sentamu
7:00AM GMT 13 Jan 2012
We are in debt. We cannot go on spending as though there is no tomorrow. Stringent savings are needed, but must be applied with caution and compassion. Only the most callous would want defenceless elderly men and women to suffer as a result.
Today, the ratio of wage-earners to retired people is about 3:1 in the UK. As we are living longer and longer, that could become 2:1 by the time today’s teenagers have retired. That may not be as fearsome as it sounds:
• Older people are healthier than they used to be and laws governing the age of retirement are being changed.
