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Surely This Is Not Only A Scottish Problem?

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anotheoldgit | 14:43 Mon 25th Mar 2013 | News
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-21918120

Many of us may take for granted the matter of getting our cars out to go shopping, getting together with our friends etc, , but there are many elderly or disabled who may live off the main bus routes, who are prisoners in their own homes.

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Subsidy.

We had a good network of Volunteer minibuses/Dial-a-rides/Community Transport but funding for it has been serverely cut.
14:51 Mon 25th Mar 2013
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Yes agreed, whereas public sector workers can strike over cuts to their very generous pensions, and school teachers can strike over pay, pensions and workload, but what action can the elderly take?
15:17 Mon 25th Mar 2013
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Well one answer, which is what many people do, is relocate to somewhere more convenient when they get older.....now I am not saying that they should do that but for some it can be an answer. Sadly subsidy is unlikely to be an option.
15:20 Mon 25th Mar 2013
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Many older people themselves volunteer to drive minbuses for other elderly people. Groups like Age buy minibuses through fundraising. If local or national Governments can help with operating costs, a service run by volunteers can be run. That is done at a fraction of running a for profit service.

Unfortunately grants have been cut so the services don't run.
15:44 Mon 25th Mar 2013
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Cutting funding to such groups is a false economy because they are incredible value for money.

15:49 Mon 25th Mar 2013
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Should have been a video with that ladt post.
15:50 Mon 25th Mar 2013
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Try again...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX-CuxVu6Do&feature=youtube_gdata_player
15:52 Mon 25th Mar 2013
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How do you get it to be a false economy?

No funding, no minibus (according to you) but they wont do anything else so cost to Government coffers nill.

If is a difficult one AOG, but always going to be the price of living in the pleasant country. Why should fold that put up with living in a town have to subsidize those who choose to live somewhere nice?
16:18 Mon 25th Mar 2013
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wait till they are "independent"!
16:31 Mon 25th Mar 2013
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With a reported 5000 pensioners dying because of the cold thank goodness we have the Liverpool Pathway to help them along.
17:14 Mon 25th Mar 2013
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Where is that reported?

And dying or dead. Quite a difference; one is simply circumstantial emotive writing.
17:36 Mon 25th Mar 2013
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youngmaglog would you believe the printed word

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298246/UKs-coldest-spring-1963-claims-5-000-lives-Pensioners-worst-affected--experts-say-final-toll-horrendous.html?ito=email-homenewsletter-20130324
18:13 Mon 25th Mar 2013
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/the Liverpool Pathway to help them along/

I wondered when a UK version of Dignitas was opening
18:16 Mon 25th Mar 2013
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pdq1, not when its printed in the Daily Mail!
19:21 Mon 25th Mar 2013

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