I would say irreversible degeneration of cognitive function is a HEALTH not a social problem.
Baroness Warnock: Dementia sufferers may have a 'duty to die'
A preview of coming attractions...
Paging the folks who are still with AARP: Can't say you weren't warned.
If she's in a nursing home, what does she need the house for, whatever its price?
She was forced to sell her £200,000 home to pay her £600-a-week nursing home fees, which would have been funded if she had been categorised correctly.
I can’t wait.
“Family told by NHS: Alzheimer’s is not a ‘health condition’”
Absolutely incredible! No, they’re right—people chose to have dementia. It’s a life choice! What idiots!! /sarc
I guess cancer of the brain would also be a social problem, right? Anyone who wants socialized medicine needs to have some serious brain transplants.
[her condition was a “social” rather than “health” problem]
REALLY??? In the final stages the body ‘forgets’ how to breath and causes DEATH.
I would say THAT is a “health problem’.
This isn’t too different from the way some Alzheimer patients are treated in the US, if they don’t have long term care insurance.
In New Jersey, if an Alzeheimer patient needs to be cared for outside of the home, and has no long term health care insurance, the state comes in and take the home and sells it at auction, along with all the person’s belongings and places them in a private nursing home. All the money from the sale is turned over to the nursing home and the nursing home then, often times, drugs the patient into a catatonic state and speeds his death. I know because I have seen it happen.