If you are elderly and poor, prison is better than a retirement home

http://io9.com ^ | May 25, 2012 | Keith Veronese

[Daffynition]

If you are in old age, with no family and little money, your options are slim if you need living assistance.

Wasting away at home is a tragic possibility and government funded retirement homes might only be an option once your assets are depleted. Would you be better off committing a crime and going to prison where you receive food, clothing, and medical care? We decided to find out.

Regardless of your state, province, or national government, going into old age and needing care while holding little or no individual assets is a dicey situation. Would you be better off in a prison than a retirement home if you lack financial assets or family?

[Daffynition]

How much is a one-way to Norway?

[yank in the UK]

In prison you don't see many elderly men, and there is a reason for that. If a man is hard enough to survive there until he is old, or has managed to live that long in prison, then I wouldn't mess with the old geezer.
Believe me, a care home is marginally better then a prison especially for the elderly. Your average pensioner would be sodomized to death there.

[Kevmo]

I can’t load that page, even in Google cache

[Daffynition]

Sorry you’re having a problem; it worked, just now, for me.

http://io9.com/5912064/if-you-are-elderly-and-poor-prison-is-better-than-a-retirement-home

Good luck. :)

[Daffynition]

Or, if you are retired you can donate yourself to be *performance art* in Montreal, at the X-Fois Gens Chaise.