Home And Living

From the BBC:

"Blind care row veteran, 98, 'living again' after court battle"

A blind World War Two veteran who fought a High Court battle to leave his care facility has told a judge he is "living again" after returning home. Douglas Meyers, 98, had been refused permission to return to his bungalow home of 40 years, where he wanted to finish his life. After a hearing earlier this year, Mr Justice Hayden decided he could return to his home near Southend, Essex. Mr Meyers told the judge he was enjoying being back. The judge, who analysed evidence at a trial in the Family Division of the High Court in Southend, said the "ideal solution" would be for Mr Meyers to return home with a "suitable package of support". Speaking via a telephone link after he returned home last week, the former Royal Navy gunner told the judge: "I have had eight days of living again." Mr Justice Hayden told Mr Meyers, who served in the Italian and north African theatres during the 1940s, he had to be pleasant to social workers and carers visiting his home. He told him to smile at helpers "until your teeth hurt". Social services bosses at Southend-on-Sea Borough Council have welfare responsibility for Mr Meyers and had asked the judge to make a decision about what was in the veteran's best interests.

^I am really glad he seems to be much better living back in his own home. I'm just sad that he had to fight to get there in the first place. It seems that with the British socialist NHS the only people now who can decide what is right for a person is a judge. The individual no longer has a say in their own care or lives. That has been proven time and again with judges deciding cases like this or taking a baby off life-support even when both parents want to keep trying to save the child. These really are death courts since they decide the life and death of a person regardless of what the person or those around them exactly want. It's all about money and saving the British NHS System. In the US there are countless organizations and companies nowadays where the elderly or someone disabled can continue living at their home with a caregiver (either for several hours or 24 hours.) That is a lot better than being in some government facility where you are just expected to die soon so that the next person can take your bed. ^

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-47628084