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.

First

of all, let me say that it's

such

a good and effective idea that elderly people can be taken care in places like those. Especially if they are alone or their children cannot visit them regularly. They can spend their time with people in their age and

also

they need some special health cares that are available in those places. But about the question that who should pay for them, I think it totally depends.

some

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Some

elderly people have children who can afford the payments or maybe they themselves have

saveings

a fund of money put by as a reserve

savings

and can pay it. In

this

case I think it would be better that

government

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the government

spends the money for something else. Like social issues, hunger, poverty, unemployment and etc. It's very effective and philanthropic that elderly people

notify

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Notify

government

if they do not need to be paid by

government

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the government

. But

on the other hand

, there are old people who don't have any child to pay for these sort of social services or their children can not afford them. In

this

case the

government

has to pay for them and give them the chance to receive those services. It's

government duty

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a government duty

and every elderly person has the right to have access to these services as a citizen. Cause they have worked in their youth and had a part in the prosperity of their country, so it's not fair to leave them to spend their golden years hardly. In conclusion, I think that social places like that mentioned in the question should be supported by

government

overall.