FURTHER to ‘Ticking Time Bomb for Social Care’ (Echo May 18). I’m afraid there has to be a fundamental change in funding for elderly care due to the extra longevity of the population.
The NHS which looks after us from birth to old age always finds adequate funds, but we are then passed under local councils who are restricted by national government to increase tax to pay for us adequately in old age to the grave, so there has to be change.
Make the NHS care for us from birth to the grave, take elderly care away from local councils, but this will need extra funding.
The government has picked our pockets from somewhere for over £9bn for the Olympics and we didn’t feel a thing, so why can’t they find money from the same source and put it in a Care for the Elderly fund.
Lots of Lottery money is supposed to go to good causes, what better cause than us in old age, little animals in Peru might object but I do think the public at large would.
Elderly care is a social time bomb.
KEN ADAMS, Glen Road, Poole
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