Family forced to sell off 81-year-old's home for care fees STATE should have covered: Relatives receive half their money back after five-year legal battle
- Church organist Barbara Bullock suffered a severe stroke aged 81
- It left her needing round-the-clock care, but no help was forthcoming
- Ruling said fees had to come out of her and her husband's savings
- It then emerged she was entitled to state support for the nursing costs
- But by then the couple had sold their house and paid out £80,000
- Mr and Mrs Bullock both died before the claim was resolved
By JAMES TOZER
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They were a hardworking couple from the wartime generation that never dreamt of claiming anything from the state.
But, despite paying taxes all their lives, when William Bullock's wife Barbara, 81, suffered a severe stroke that left her needing round-the-clock care, no help was forthcoming.
In a sickening example of authorities' reluctance to pay care home bills – even when legally obliged to do so – health officials ruled that the former church organist's nursing fees had to come out of the couple's savings.
This article is a stereotypical representation of old people as it is believed that when people get old, they rely on the state for financial income and support. In the headline they have outlined the age of the woman as 81 is a very old age to live, so therefore grabs the reader attention. Words such as 'severe' and 'reluctance' are used to show the condition the woman is in, and yet the state have done very little to help this.
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