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Care home protest: Government has betrayed a generation of older people - Burstow
November 11, 2003 5:00 PM
The Government has betrayed a generation of older people who were promised before the 1997 election that they would not be forced to sell their homes to pay for their basic care, Paul Burstow MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, said today.
His comments are in response to today's news that 120,000 people living in their own homes or in care homes currently have to pay for personal care according to The Right To Care campaign.
Paul Burstow MP, who joined The Right To Care campaign in handing in their 100,000 signature petition to Downing Street, said:
"The Government has betrayed a generation of older people who the Prime Minister promised, before the 1997 election, would not be forced to sell their homes to pay for their basic care.
"Ministers are mistaken if they think this fundamental issue of fairness will go away.
"The elderly, who have worked and paid taxes all their lives, expected that care would be there when they needed it and now this Government is defending attacks on the sick elderly which denies them their dignity."
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