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Have you ever thought about how you'd like to be looked after in your old age?

In this edition, Sonia Soda looks at how we might fundamentally rethink how we care for older people. This is the story of Britain's older people.

People too old to speak for themselves, with no one to speak for them. We're all going to get old one day. But for many people the idea of

living in a care home conjures up a fear of boredom, loneliness and neglect.

All too many live in the dreads seclusion of boredom, loneliness and neglect.

All too many live in the dread seclusion of loneliness, many infirm, many in failing health.

Revelations about abuse of older people by professional carers seem to feature in news bulletins at

warriingly regular intervals. What we do attack is a system, a system for which the

British public alone is ultimately responsible.

Every time I see a secretly recorded clip of a Care Home resident being neglected,

I feel sick. What if that was my mother or father?

But I also feel scared.

Like many people in my early 30s, I worry about what will happen when my parents need care.

This pathway news film suggests these concerns aren't at all new.

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