Home for Retired Missionaries

A Care Home for retired Missionaries loses its Council funding because the management won't ask the old people about their sexual orientation.

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I am a retired Nursing sister, and there is no way I would embarrass old people in my care by asking them things like that. It is disrespectful and emotionally abusive and I would refuse to have anything to do with such an outrage against their dignity.

If someone wanted to talk to me in a professional capacity about this sort of thing, I would listen attentively and non judgementally. But to go out of your way to ask the elderly, who grew up in a far stricter world about matters such as these, smacks of intrusive prurience and voyeurism to me.

Why is Dignity disregarded these days? Why is there no respect? Who comes up with these ideas?