I will always believe that my aunt was murdered in hospital, but I cannot prove it and there is no point even trying. She was doing the Telegraph crossword one day, the next she was deprived of water by her doctors and put on a pathway to death because a committee of them decided she wasn’t going to make it so it would be best to hasten things. By the time I was told it was already too late. If I had known sooner, I would have got her out of that hospital forcibly, but I would probably have been arrested for trying.
It is routine for older people to be treated as if they were lesser beings. One of my mother’s friends was ordained and an important member of her church. When she died her son decided to give her a humanist funeral and no one from the church was invited.
So many older people live alone neglected by their family. The vultures circle waiting for whatever legacy may come their way but treat their parents with disdain. They don’t phone and when they do, they don’t listen. I have heard so many tragic stories because I live with my mother. I know many of her friends. They get more help from each other than they do from their families. Have you any idea what it is like to be an older person on her own who can’t open a jam jar when there is no one to do it for her? What if it were you? It will be.
This is the context of the greatest scandal of all during Covid. The treatment of older people in hospitals and care homes happened because for decades we haven’t thought that their lives matter.
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