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NEWS & LETTERS, March 2002
Modern workhouses
London—From history we know
that the workhouse was an administrative means of killing off the poor and
elderly. Are we any better with the the warehousing of the elderly through the
residential and nursing home care services? This is an area that is little
discussed, and the marginalization of ethnic minorities is ignored. One of the
issues that is covered up is the 30,000
people sent to nursing homes, even though they warranted free health care under
the National Health Service. This is both unfair and unlawful. Add to this injustice the
removal of psychiatric, social and rehabilitative services. Then they merely
provide warehousing spaces for the young who have become physically disabled by
car and work accidents. The same is true for head injury victims, stroke
victims, the learning disabled, and among the fragile or demented elderly. What
is going to happen? —Patrick Cooper-Duffy |
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