Write about the following topic: 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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In developed countries, there are homes known as old -age homes. When people get old in these countries and
are retired
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have retired
retire
from their jobs, they start to live in the old-age homes. There are many other old people in the old-age
home
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so, all of them enjoy each other company and can spend the
last
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days of their
life
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without any
wordly
characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
worldly
tension.
Old
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Older
people living in the old-age homes do require basic
necessaties
the condition of being essential or indispensable
necessities
of
life
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like food, water, clothes, medicines etc. Some
old
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older
people whose children live near to the old-age
home
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can come to meet their relatives and give them food,
clothes etc
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clothes, etc.
clothes etc.
but, there are some old people in the old-age homes whose relatives come only on some
occassion
an event that occurs at a critical time
occasion
or once a year. For those people, old-age
home
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has to arrange the basic
necessaties
the condition of being essential or indispensable
necessities
necessaries
of
life
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. Continuing my discussion, if a
person
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in the old-age
home
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gets ill, staff of old-age
home
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can contact the relatives of that
person
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and ask them to take the
person
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to
doctor
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the doctor
a doctor
. But what if the relatives do not come, old-age
home
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can not let the
person
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die. To overcome
this
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situation, old-age homes have nurses in them who look after the people in old-age homes. From where do these nurses get their salary? How do they get the medicines?
This
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vary
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varies
from
old-age
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the old-age home
old-age homes
home
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to old-age
home
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. Some old-age homes charge the relatives of the
person
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. From
this
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amount they pay the nurses and arrange the medicines. Some old-age homes get
amount
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a mount
from
Governement
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the government
government
governments
for health care of
old
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the old
-people.
Question
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The question
is, whether
government
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the government
should pay for
this
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or relatives should pay for
this
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. In my opinion,
Government
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the Government
should pay for
this
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. It is the responsibility of the
governemnt
the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
government
to provide basic
necessaties
the condition of being essential or indispensable
necessities
of
life
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to
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for
their people, good health is one of the most basic
necessatiy
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necessities
necessity
of
life
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.
Further
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to
this
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,
governemnt
the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
government
takes tax from
people
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the people
of their
country so, they
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country, so they
should spend that amount on the betterment of their people.
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