I FEEL it is disrespectful to label elderly, frail people as “bedblockers”.

They are trapped in hospital by illness and disabilities as there is no available care for them elsewhere.

The NHS needs more funding (perhaps less money could be spent on war-mongering) to train extra staff and, perhaps, raise the standard of services for elderly people.

Sometimes there is a lack of respect and dignity shown to them. But we must remember these stoical people kept the country running during the war and in the immediate austere times following.

We will all grow old.

PAMELA TREADWELL, Dodgson Road, Cowley, Oxford