In Britain, when someone gets old they often go to live in a home with other old people where there are nurses to look after them. Sometimes the government has to pay for this care.Who do you think should pay for this care, the government or the family? G

Essay topics:

In Britain, when someone gets old they often go to live in a home with other old people where there are nurses to look after them. Sometimes the government has to pay for this care.

Who do you think should pay for this care, the government or the family?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Critics throughout the developing and developed countries have debated whether the cost for senior citizens living in residential care homes should be paid by government or the families. While families seem to have the responsibilities to take care of their aged members, I, on the other hand, think that the government should instead pay for the costs of care homes because of a few reasons.

To begin with, it is the obligation of the government to support senior citizens' living. It is because the elderly used to devote their lives in contribution of the society during their working age. In return, they deserve free professional caring services when they are getting elder. Besides, government often allocates a high proportion of money for social security sector. This can be used to invest on establishment of public residential homes and subsidy for the cost of living in residential home. Take Hong Kong government as an example which allocates one-third of the tax incomes in building elderly-friendly facilities and sets up allowance to enable them to live in residential homes without fees.

Another insight that should not be neglected, meanwhile, is the need to provide financial support to families having senior members to enable economy growth. More specifically, when the government pays for the costs for residential home service fee, the constraint of finance of the families is removed, encouraging a higher productivity by the family members. Without such support, not only do the families suffer from stress sustaining their lives in materialized society, but also might end up giving up their jobs for looking after their senior members at home. This will reduce the workforce in the society and in long term becoming a hindrance to the economic growth.

Given that senior members spent their lives boosting the society development at their younger age, government policies should be set to allow senior members to live in residential homes without charges to relief any possible financial burden put on their families' shoulder. It is also predicted that more governments will divert their tax incomes for supporting elderly's lives in the future.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 224, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to free'
Suggestion: to free
...ir working age. In return, they deserve free professional caring services when they ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, if, look, so, third, while, to begin with, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 41.998997996 131% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1835.0 1615.20841683 114% => OK
No of words: 348.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27298850575 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83459060259 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537356321839 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 575.1 506.74238477 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.3832096154 49.4020404114 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.071428571 106.682146367 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8571428571 20.7667163134 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.71428571429 7.06120827912 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.311287675472 0.244688304435 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11593110738 0.084324248473 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0674864067525 0.0667982634062 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.20718628992 0.151304729494 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0592551434398 0.056905535591 104% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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