How Britain shames its elders
Christmas is a chance to end a miserable year on a high. That means raucous office piss-ups, anarchic family get-togethers, and impish toddlers greedily unpacking their stockings. Not so for our elderly, though. A shocking number spend the festive season entirely alone. Christmas simply serves as a painful reminder of past happiness and companionship as the spectre of death looms ever larger. In the UK, we don’t do well by our elderly relatives. We make their final journeys about ourselves: the financial
