Posted: Jul 14, 2014 11:24 am
Ironclad wrote:Fallible wrote:
Oh, and it's assumed that people here are far more ready to put their elderly relatives into homes when they become unable to look after themselves, but certainly here in the North this isn't always the case, with children considering it their responsibility to look after them. Certainly I think it will be my duty when the time comes.
I wonder when this started to become the norm for the UK. I watch the news and see people complaining about the cost of private and state care and their parents having to sell their own homes to fund it, and i'm thinking to myself, when did we stop looking after our own families anyway?
I'm guessing much of the problem (if there is seen to be one) is rooted in the fact that we are all so mobile now, kids can go anywhere in the world so that lovely inheritance is going to be enjoyed by a private health company, or retirement home, instead of them.
Yeah, could be. I actually think there is something else going on too whereby the elderly think of themselves as imposing on their kids if they go to live with them, this idea that we're all so busy now that we don't have the time to take care of each other. I know that's what prompted my grandparents to go into homes, and no amount of pleading or cajoling would talk them out of it.