210 Reports Extra: The Elderly: I want to die at home

Title: 210 Reports Extra: The Elderly: I want to die at home
Transmission details: 2 Sep 1983
Description: 210 Reports Extra: The Elderly: I want to die at home. Presented by B.J. [?] Track 1- At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the average life expectancy in Britain was 50 years. In contemporary times it is 75 years. And at the end of the Century it is projected it will be between 80 and 100 years. More people are living longer. So, we talk to a representative of Age Concern and she explains the way that elderly people feel today. She says that more and more people prefer to live at home until they die. And governmental police is to encourage them to stay at home. Interviews with some of the elderly participants in the programme, they also say that they prefer to stay at home until they die. Track 2- A look at elderly people that cannot stay at home any longer for different reasons, mainly because they are too much fragile, cannot move, or have debi;itating illness, etc. and they have to go to care homes or hospitals. The programme also looks at the sheltered accomodations, bed-sits, housing associations, etc. Some interviews with elderly people in care homes and accomodations. [Box 6]
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Duration: 00:34:27
Notes: Includes music.
Production company: Radio 210
Extent: 1 tape

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