The British need an attitude change about how we feel about our elderly people, because for far too long the attitude has been, out of sight, out of mind. We are not like the European’s who revere their elderly people. Europe shames Britain on care for the elderly as we rank 17th out of 20 in list of money spent on our elders Successive right wing governments have betrayed Britain’s pensioners by spending less on social care for the elderly than almost any other country in Europe. Research which campaigners say ‘should shame us as a nation’ has found that Italy and France spend twice as much on their pensioners as we do in the UK. Britain comes 17th out of the 20 major European countries surveyed, behind wealthy Germany as well as former Communist countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic. Miserable: Proportionally the UK spend less than half of the what Italy do on the elderly. It shows that the UK simply does not respect and care about their elderly people as much as our EU neighbours do. The tiny amount of public spending committed to the elderly – 5.8 per cent of national income compared to 11.7 per cent in Italy – is a key reason behind the scandal of tens of thousands of people having to sell their homes every year to pay for their residential care. Britain’s pensioners has suffered Thatchers ideology for over 30 years. The UK’s State pension for our elderly people is just £107 a week, with demeaning, and humiliating means tested handouts if pensioners cant afford to live on it. And I might add, our younger generation have got all this to come. epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/56676 epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/51449 Please go to this link, it’s my web site dedicated to all British pensioners and the younger generations because they have all this to come and therefore they must consolidate. la65.forumotion.co.uk.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 10:01:05 +0000
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