It therefore follows that, unless this is to become an eventide home, the hereditary system is the best for injecting young blood into it.
It is to what extent we can help those who have reached the eventide of their life.
So far as it lies in our power we must see that the old people get the maximum pleasure in the eventide of their lives.
It is not simply an eventide home for the retired—though there is room for that.
In the northern district there is a waiting period of 10 years for a place in an eventide home.
They suffer years of awful misery and unhappiness in the eventide of their lives, and offering them a better environment thereafter is not the answer.
Within the constituency there is a waiting list for places in eventide homes of 300 to 400.
There is a need for increased public expenditure to build three or four more eventide homes.
