Elderly patients win right
to sue if medical treatment is denied because of age
Elderly patients have to get the same health and social care
as someone at a younger age in the same condition. Unfortunately this does not
always seem to be the case. Elderly patients are not getting the same treatment
as someone in the same condition that is younger.
If someone or their relatives has got the feeling that they
did not get the same treatment as someone that is younger and in the same
condition as they are they can sue the health managers.
Michelle Mitchell, of
Age UK, said: "Discrimination based on your date of birth is as
indefensible in 21st-century Britain as prejudice on the basis of race, gender,
disability or sexual orientation’’.
I think that everybody deserves to get the same health and
social care they need. It doesn’t matter how old you are. A doctor has to save
peoples life and not treating people different, because of their age. A doctor
has to look at the condition of the patient instead of first looking at the age
before treating someone. So if elderly patients do not get the treatment they
need I think that they have to be able to sue health managers. Even though age
discrimination is illegal it still happens unfortunately. Elderly patients need
more treatment, so I think that they have to get the best treatment there is!
I think it's lame that elderly people don't get the same treatment as younger people. They may be older, and have a shorter life ahead of them, but, in my opinion, they should still be able to get treatment. People are people!
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