FabSwingers.com forum: Social care

By *ingdomNightTimePleasuresMan
1 day ago

nearby

Sort out food supply, I don’t believe all this is solely related to a sedentary lifestyle.

Key contributor to poor health:

There are around 1.1–1.3 million adults receiving long-term local authority-funded social care in England in a typical year, with many more people arranging and funding their own care privately.

In the general adult population in England:

* 64.5% of adults are overweight or living with obesity.

* 26.5% are living with obesity. (Hm gov)

By *resesse_MelioremCouple
1 day ago

Border of London

People need to care.

The notion that a government is going to provide full social care for all who need it is beautiful, but laughable. Families and communities work. Bureaucracy cannot be trusted in this any more than they can be trusted to fill potholes.

By *rHotNottsMan
23 hours ago

Dubai & Nottingham

I'm aware of one country where you need to prove no one living in your family has a job in order to get government help when old. Socialism replaces family/community with the state, as you do not need your family, I will look after you , and then it does a terrible job

By *oubleswing2019Man
13 hours ago

Colchester

Culturally, we are not geared up in the Western World to provide multi-generational family care to our loved ones. We can pontificate about why that is and come up with many reasons, but fundamentally, it's not our way.

Once you accept that, unpalatable as it might be, that only leaves 2 other possible routes of social care in your dotage.

1.State-provided or

2.Privately Funded

1. Means higher taxes. And the labour force to support it.

2. Means your selling your home to fund it. And having a labour force to provide it.

Them's are the choices.

I'm kind of hoping a 3rd choice emerges before not too long and people can check out on their own terms when they wish, if that is their considered and consenting choice free of coercion or pressure.