Do th e UK government have an implicit policy of euthanasia of the elderly?

Question

It is well documented that the elderly live longer when cared for by nurses but the government have removed nearly all nurses from thier care in the social care sector

Answer 1

I think your question is phrased pretty insensitively, but anyway...  uk local and central government policies are all over the place.  idiots get voted into power by idiots who don't understand the impact of their actions.  all that matters in local gov is the bottom line - how much it costs. and caring for the elderly is not cheap. it's easier and cheaper to pass the care responsibility and bills on to the silently suffering children and extended family and relatives.  people with votes don't seem to realise that they are directly responsible for the situation.  vote for someone whose policies include provisioning for the elderly, NOT the person promising the lowest council tax.

Answer 2

The answer is, possibly, but not explicitly.

Answer 3

"Implicit" is the key word of your enquiry and I cannot strictly answer to that.

But the practice would suggest that your enquiry is well founded.

My own experience of state nursing homes both in UK and Australia have left some...some warranting a drastic cleansing of the care culture of these institutions.

I'm sick of the soft spoken wording of reassurrances that emits from their mouthes when challenged about the lack of care.

More protection for whistle blowers are needed to stem this endemic indifference by managers more attentive to budgetry control than human care.

Otherwise good people are suppressed in fear of their careers at threat just because they care enough to expose the woeful inadequacies within the system.

We always find enough money to go to war and perhaps its time to divert the resources towards the living and not to create more death and destruction.

Answer 4

District nurses are a vital lifeline for the elderly.not only do they treat their illnesses, but also assess how they are living and coping. With the fantastic pension rise and the exhorbitant rises in fuel and food prices, something is going to suffer. Either heating or eating.

Answer 5

In a guarded response, I will say that when my Dad was in hospital a few weeks ago, he expressed a wish that, if his heart stopped beating, he did not want to be resuscitated, but unless or until then, he wanted all and every chance to survive, and all and every necessary treatment to help him survive.

From that point onwards, the hospital staff began to withdraw all of his treatment and even his own medicines that he brought from home.

It is my contention that my Dad did not express a desire to die, but a realistic option if things went wrong, and that the hospital took a different view in assuming the meaning was that he wanted to be left to die, resulting in their "omission of action" causing my Dad's death to occur prematurely.

At this stage, the hospital not only ceased all and any medical treatment, but they also withdrew food and drink!!

In effect, he was starved to death and denied treatment.

This happened, it was for real,  and I was at his bedside, continuously, for the last 64 hours of his life.

I saw this with my own eyes.

So to answer your question, you may have a valid point.