Hi all

Having experience of a close elderly friend of the family who, 5 years ago, had an operation on the gall bladder and who has not been right ever since, plus all the other never-ending stories about the appalling, disgusting and downright inhumane treatment of elderly people, I felt compelled to highlight this huge problem in this country.

Now the friend of the family could have been a younger chap but the stories I keep hearing is that they are just being shoved around from pillar to post and it has created a lot of anxiety and stress. Not the kind of thing that should be happening to you in your old age.

I have read and heard NHS insiders state that old people are treated like old cars when it comes time to repair, if it aint worth the money just scrap it. How on earth can we sit back and accept that OAPs are being treated like this every day, up and down the country, especially after paying so much into the tax system, and for a lot of them going through a war for our freedom?

What a bloody way to repay them eh?

Also remember the dispatches documentaries, how the elderly patients in care were left soaked in piss for days on end, and some were left in busy open wards to die in agony of cancer or other diseases, and then just left there. Absolutely disgraceful and I feel ashamed that our society knows this is going on but most people just turn a blind eye to it.

Here's some links to ponder over:

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/health/poll+doctors+believe+nhs+is+ageist/2911702

http://news.scotsman.com/carefortheelderly/Lack-of-NHS-chiropodists-leaves.2771919.jp

I don't know about you but I think this is something that needs addressing urgently and heads NEED to roll.

Andrew