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.

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A visible change of any living organism is getting older. Child, youth, adult and elder are some of the stages in our life. Child and elderly stages are dependent stages compared to other two stages. For both of these situations, a human being needs other’s support. While we were children, our parents were there for our supportive role. When the parents became older, definitely their children need to be the supportive role
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their parents.
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is the role we carry among human beings vice versa. If the parents live with their children only parents will feel safer, attached to family and sharing of love. Unfortunately, many of them attending to
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work
, they do not have time to look after their children neither their parents. In
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case,
elders
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the elders
could be
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sent
to some a common place where other elders are staying. But payment cannot be made by the
government
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. Since it is the responsibility of their family, definitely family needs to pay for caring
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for
their parents. They may not have enough time to take care of their parents. Since the
government
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has employed special people for that, at least those elders’ parents need to be paid by their family. For an example, many of the parents were private sector employees and they did not have a monthly pension scheme. But they have only Employee provident fund and employee trust funds. It has been used by the children of the parents in plantation sector
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Sri Lanka.
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, children
will neither look after their parents nor elderly parents do not have
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won't neither look after their parents nor elderly parents have
will neither look after their parents nor elderly parents not have
will neither look after their parents nor elderly parents do not have
own money in hand.
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, all advantages utilised from elders. When they become a stage of the dependent, families are trying to escape from their responsibilities.
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is a kind of selfish. Paid by the
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should be stopped and families should be paid for them. Especially the children are responsible for looking after the parents; they should definitely pay for the parents and not the
government
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Aging population
  • Elderly care
  • Nursing homes
  • Social welfare
  • Intergenerational responsibility
  • Caregiving
  • Financial burden
  • Quality of life
  • Pension funds
  • Healthcare policy
  • Taxation
  • Subsidies
  • Private insurance
  • Long-term care
  • Sustainability
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