People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care.
Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it.
We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.
Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.
Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies.
You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.