Yesterday I was visiting my gran who lives in a sheltered housing place where lots of people have serious illnesses like dementia. There have been some care issues in the place which our family has been helping my gran with. For some of her friends who don’t have children or those who have no contact with their children it’s pretty bad. They were telling me that they get treated poorly because the staff know that they can’t do anything about it because they have no one to support them. I felt so sorry for them.
I know most people don’t expect their children to provide care for them that’s fair enough but if you don’t have anyone do you not then become really vulnerable to this sort of thing in your old age or have you thought of ways around it?