Elders as Citizens in the UK

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Introduction

Aging is considered as a natural process, in which collection of changes takes place within human beings that renders their DNA and with progress leads to death. Different researchers define aging in their own ways. However in simple words, aging is a natural process of human growth. With aging every human being begins dependant on someone else as with age, comes weakness and other health problems (www.phrases.org.uk).

In the United Kingdom and many other countries, a person is said to be an elder once he hits the age of 65 and above. In the United Kingdom, an elder as a citizens face many problems because of the discrimination being followed in the United Kingdom for the elderly and the overall capitalist system being followed.

The following pages will discuss on the elders as a citizen in the United Kingdom. How these elderly people go on with their life under the care of government and public health care and what are the problems that they face in their daily routine will also be discussed in the following white paper. Furthermore, how capitalism in the United Kingdom affects their life will also is discussed at the end (Speaking up to safe guard, 2009).

Discussion

Elders are those who care for us and helped us in being what we are and what we will, no matter that the youth is considered as the future of the country, but it should be noted that the elders are the one who makes the future of the youth itself. Even with this, elders are considered as a problem in our society. Majority of the people living in the United Kingdom breakup their families into nuclear families that leave the elders of the family left alone and in the hands of the government. Under their hands, these elders are not seen as dependants but more of a consumer because of the high capitalism in the United Kingdom.

Elders in United Kingdom and the Capitalism

Like every other capitalist economy in the world, the health care centres of United Kingdom are highly focused on segregation and discrimination among the people who are old and those who are young. Discriminations are made in a sense that the health care centres and other insurance companies do not provide or support the elders in the United Kingdom as they are old and are not providing and contributing anything in the capitalist economy, yet these elders say that they are living in a free and democratic country with fairness and equality (www.seniorhousemates.com). Some elderly do get the chance to go through insurance yet those who cannot due to the discrimination and other problems inevitably become a part of National Health Care Centre.

The opportunity of capitalism to not supply for the elderly and many soon after they retire will have to claim their pensions ”These schemes suggest the possibility of new rigidities arising within the social services and simultaneously ,may make more difficult problems of employment in an ageing population” Essays on the welfare state, in that stage of your life all that is left ...