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Care Home fees.

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  • Red-Squirrel_2
    Red-Squirrel_2 Posts: 4,341 Forumite
    Comms69 wrote: »
    Obviously not, but everyone has that opportunity; if they don’t take it it’s not my fault

    I think you need to work on that thought a bit longer.
  • Comms69
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    Red-Squirrel wrote: »
    I think you need to work on that thought a bit longer.

    I’m not sure if we’re discussing the same thing; so perhaps I could ask you- who’s fault is it?
  • p00hsticks
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    lisyloo wrote: »
    Even if your loved one is in a nursing home it's rare that they will take them to an optician or for a hearing test or to get false teeth or to go clothes shopping.


    It may vary from authority to authority, but the (Local authority funded) nursing home that my MIL was in had visiting opticians, hearing technicians, chiropodists, hairdressers and manicurists.


    Not sure about dental visits as my MIL had dentures.
  • Red-Squirrel_2
    Red-Squirrel_2 Posts: 4,341 Forumite
    Comms69 wrote: »
    I’m not sure if we’re discussing the same thing; so perhaps I could ask you- who’s fault is it?

    Fault is irrelevant.

    Unless you want a society where there are no low paid jobs (either those jobs don't get done, or everybody is paid the same regardless of what they do, up to you) then its pointless blaming individuals for working in low paid jobs, we all need them to, its how our society is set up and they are just as deserving of services and a decent standard of life as anybody else.
  • Comms69
    Comms69 Posts: 14,229 Forumite
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    So the state should subsidise it?
  • Red-Squirrel_2
    Red-Squirrel_2 Posts: 4,341 Forumite
    Comms69 wrote: »
    So the state should subsidise it?

    Subsidise what? Care for people who need it and aren't wealthy?

    Yes of course!
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