We see more and more stories in the media about the bad treatment of our elderly in hospitals and in care/nursing homes, how they are ignored, left without food or fluids, we hear about bad and down right filthy conditions, a lack of care or dignity - why oh why??

Is it because the elderly do not complain like present generations? Is it because the new generation have lost that basic respect for old age and the more vunerable? Is it more mundane and down to a lack of money? Or is it that as a nation we just doe not care anymore?

If we do not look after the vunerable in society then we are no longer a society that matters in this world.