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The elderly have been in dire straits during the coronavirus epidemic in part because society has turned its back on them and allowed them to “step out” of the social care system, says an advocate for sociologists.
The financial situation of the elderly has clearly deteriorated and it has become almost impossible to maintain their health during the coronavirus epidemic, said Katalin Talyigás, a sociologist at Népszava and a member of the Coordinating Council of Retirement Organizations.
In a first stage, the health service was almost discontinued, and now the reorganizations are impossible to track, the elderly patient does not even know where to turn if they have a complaint, the GPs have become almost inaccessible by phone.
The majority of coronavirus deaths are older people, and we perceive that the last stage of life has become unworthy for those in the hospital and unworthy for those living in nursing homes, among other things because they cannot see their families.
Forty per cent of the four million Hungarian households are old and scandalous, but there are 150,000 households in which people over the age of 80 live alone. Their help is not always organized. The state should develop a system of care in which near-home benefits come to the fore and residential institutions for hundreds of people cease to exist.
Regarding social and health care, the newspaper’s press officers asked the specialist if he thought they would allow the elderly to leave the system. The answer is, “Yes, I definitely do.” We have reached the point where society is distancing itself from its own elders, which is largely played by the ruling parties. There is no appreciation of the elderly in education, and in the idea of a “society based on work”, the value is not the man, but the money: if it is no longer produced, nothing is felt.
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