First-person direct (Part 4): Right up to the last moment

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WE LIKE what we see when senior citizens are still in the prime by blogging away and trying to tell us something about their lives and experiences so that the rest of us young’uns don’t run into the same roadblocks. Alas…

More grumps from New Zealanders

SEEMS LIKE New Zealanders in a grumpy mood can come up with some seriously workable solutions to problems.

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SUGGESTION

Put pensioners in gaol (AmE: jail) and criminals in a nursing home.

Benefits to pensioners

This way, pensioners would have:

• access to showers, hobbies and walks
• unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheelchairs, etc
• receive money instead of paying it out.
• constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly if they fell or needed some other assistance
• bedding washed twice a week and all clothing ironed and returned to them
• a guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their meals and snacks to their cell room
• family visits in a suite built for that purpose
• access to a library, weight room, spiritual counselling, pool and education
• simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJs and legal aid would be free on request
• private, secure rooms for all, with an outdoor exercise yard, with gardens
• a personal computer, a TV, radio for each pensioner and daily phone calls
• a board of directors to hear complaints
• a code of conduct for guards that would be strictly adhered to

Benefits to criminals

The criminals would get:

• cold food
• be left all alone and unsupervised
• lights out at 8pm
• showers once a week
• live in a tiny room
• pay NZ$800 (US$692) per week
• no hope of ever getting out

JUSTICE FOR ALL!

Prison or nursing home? The world's most luxurious gaol: the Justice and Detention Centre in Leoben, Austria

This is not a nursing home: the Leoben gaol in Austria

(via Fred L.)

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