I WAS recently sitting on the Rose Hill bus and listening to two elderly ladies discussing how the old people are treated.

I was dismayed to hear that the controlled homes do not have a warden on site. The emergency phone doesn’t always work. One of the ladies recalled a lady had died and was not discovered until the next day.

In another incident, a husband telephoned for an ambulance for his wife, but it was too late because it took such a long time before they had a response.

This is shocking and truly tragic. Is this how the Government provides older people a better quality of life?

Our population ages and the number of people who may need care is ever increasing. We have worked all our lives and paid in with a promise we would get care in the future.

As a pensioner, I am concerned that I may need care in the future. Unless the Government commits to properly fund the social care system, the measures in the Care Bill designed to help people will fall short and will be a missed chance to solve the care crisis once and for all.

MARGARET ROPER Mortimer Road Rose Hill Oxford