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?

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It is human nature to get old. Life is consist of different life stages
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as infancy, toddler, childhood, teenage age, young adult, adulthood, and old. When we are in our mother’s womb, she took
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of us to ensure our healthy development until she delivered us into
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world. Our parents
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the
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teacher, who mold and influence our attitudes and
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. When the
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comes that our parents became old, it is our
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to take
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of and love them as they did before. But
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does not usually happen most of the
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. In some parts of the world like Britain, when someone gets old they often go to live in a home for the aged where there are nurses to look after them.
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may happen due to the
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and work constraints of the family or children. Some just
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not
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and neglect their loved ones because it is a burden on their part. Sometimes the government has to pay for
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care
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. Due to the reason that the family cannot afford the bills in aged
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or the person does not have any family at all. I believed that it is the family’s responsibility to pay the bill if they decided to let their loved ones stay in the aged
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institution. It is one way of fulfilling their obligation if they cannot do it at their own home.
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, the government can pay the aged
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bill on
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basis as part of assistance for those who cannot afford it and for those abandoned or have no family.
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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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