Current attitudes towards the elderly in the UK

Some ideas of what I could include... 

• Elderly care in a capitalist society has always been in a bit of a crisis, as they are no longer 'useful' and productive to society so they get pushed to the bottom of the list of priorities to sort out. 
• The devaluation of reproductive work (care work, cooking, cleaning, childcare, the paid domestic labour force) has led to funds distributed to elderly care to diminish and be allocated elsewhere (also why carers are so underpaid, especially when working for NHS organisations). 
• The task for caring for the old has been left to families and charities, with very little external support; back in the day the women would have been left to this job, but as now many women have full time careers and are less likely to be a stay-at-home wife and mother, there is even less people than before to look after them.
• The government has responded by giving informal caregivers more rights to a flexible work/care balance, but they have continued to tighten budgets on elderly care (it's a bit of a rubbish compromise).
• Most families cannot afford good care homes or to hire visiting carers, or to pay for services matching their real needs. 
• They are a strain on the younger generations, a strain that will only continue to increase as the amount of elderly constantly increases.
• They are a drain on the government and NHS funds.