Home care funding - Policy should be reviewed

THE various forms of dementia are a darkening and expanding cloud over the Western world. 

Many people of a certain age, especially those with a family history of Alzheimer’s or one of the other slow, debilitating, destructive, and irreversible diseases of growing old, worry that they may end up in a nursing home dependent on the kindness of strangers — often poorly paid strangers overwhelmed by pretty long hours and high patient numbers.

It is not an exaggeration to say that some people regard the prospect of ending their days in a nursing home with almost the same level of dread they view the affliction that might force them to leave their homes.