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Originally Posted by pylon
How is someone with Alzheimer's or dementia supposed to be responsible for themselves. Get a part time job at the local 7-11? A lot of these people gave everything to their kids, so they could have a good life, and then are subsequently dumped in these homes once they are broke, and a burden. It is not as cut and dry as you make it.
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Well obviously during a persons life they save money so that money can be used for their retirement / Death. If you choose not to do that for whatever reason be it kids, vacations, nice cars etc that is your choice. The governments job at all stages of life should be to ensure human dignity.
Also if your kids dump you in a home and dont help support you, you raised some selfish kids.
I agree it isn't black and white and I think that homes with good employees could probably do better with the same costs then the government mandated program. And local delivery should be explored. Whats interesting is here is an area where a for profit home might be able to provide better service than a government one because of competition. THis assumes that the kids would put some effort into choosing a home for the parent.
I look at programs like Welfare the same way, you want to ensure a minimum level of human dignity. Beyond that is not the governments role.