智慧人生篇章 (51)老年人的照料

J. K. Galbraith once said, "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." He could have been speaking of the decisions we keep putting off about how we pay for future care of the elderly. Yet the urgent need for decisions was underlined this week by the Office for National Statistics. It revealed that ...

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智慧人生篇章 (58)残疾人的照料

The sight of a grown woman lying on the floor, her wrist pinned down by the foot of someone who was supposed to be caring for her was one of the more shocking images that emerged from Winterbourne View, the private hospital which was home to 44 people with learning disabilities until its closure in May 2011. While it seems that attitudes are changing for the better with rega...

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