In Britain, when someone gets old they often go to live in a home with other old people where there are nurses to look after them. Sometimes the government has to pay for this care. Who do you think should pay for this care, the government or the family? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

I believe that it is important to take

care

of people in an old age. Nursing homes or some people like to call them

retirement

homes, where there are registered nurses to take

care

, are important part of ensuring

this

care

.

Retirement

homes can be

costly but

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costly, but

it is important to ensure that

quality

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the quality

of

care

is maintained

Retirement

homes are important part of society. It allows one to have a decent living and

also

have an access to needed

healthcare

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health care

. Various studies have shown that the

retirement

homes play an important role in ensuring both the physical and the mental health. It allows people to have friends and

also

allows a community living.

Retirement

homes can be costly to maintain. There are minimum requirements around infrastructure to be maintained and there is need to have

minimum number

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a minimum number

the minimum number

of registered nurses. All

this

adds to cost of maintaining these places.

This

results in an obvious question of who pays for all these costs. On one side, there is an argument that it is

responsibility

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the responsibility

a responsibility

of

government

to take

care

of its people. On

other hand

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the other hand

, there is an argument that quality of

care

will be reduced as

government

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the government

cannot pay for all ageing

population

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populations

. I believe that right path is in

middle

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the middle

. There is a significant population who

have

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has

means

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the means

to pay for the

retirement

homes and must pay for it. There can be a minimum

guidelines

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guideline

put out by

government

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the government

to identify the criteria for

this

.

For example

, if a person has income above a certain threshold, or person has minimum savings. But it is must that

government

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the government

takes

care

of

rest

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the rest

of

population

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the population

who cannot pay for these homes. Overall, I believe that it is

responsibility

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the responsibility

of a

government

to

lay

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lie

to down the guidelines for maintaining

quality

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the quality

of the

retirement

homes, lay down the guidelines on who pays and what

amount but

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amount, but

ensures that each and every citizen has access to these places at the end of the day.