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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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One of the most
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challenging
problem
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 in our society is the question of who should be responsible
about
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the
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elderly
people
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. That problem is not just a financial problem,
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 a question of what we want in our society for them. In the present essay, I would like to talk about two different ways to cope with
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old
people
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’s care but opting more for the government who
it’s
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 must be responsible for them.
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, we have to keep in mind that the majority of the old
people
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 have worked a lot in the past and
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 fact, the companies which they were working for have to be responsible for their retired employees.
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, most of the workers in Spain
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 an amount of their wage to
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social security to achieve when they will get the age of retirement, an amount that
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it’s
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 called
‘pension’
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a ‘pension’
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 to be able to survive.
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 quantity always depends on how many hours have you done at your job and how much of your salary have you contributed to
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 public organization.
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, another possibility would be those
people
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 who have never worked in a legal way in their life, or
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otherwise
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 they didn’t get at least ‘x’ years, to be able to get paid.
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,
it’s
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 hard to say but, nowadays we can see a lot of
people
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 in the
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 living like
a
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homeless
people
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 when they get old because they don’t have money
for
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 afford
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accommodation or even though their family doesn’t
want
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 take care of them, treating them as a burden
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 of as a family.
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 I must admit that I can’t choose between one of these models because both of them have advantages and drawbacks at the same time.
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,
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, if old
people
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 were able to contribute to the economic system,
government
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 should pay for
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 care.

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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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