Katie Hopkins on dementia patients

Words fail me. According to her I have should have been put down fifteen years ago, before I got doolally. Really? No signs of doolallity or obnoxiousness yet. In me that is. I can still manage to hold a comprehensible conversation and put on my own clothes.

I still know more about everything and have more common sense and nous than she will ever absorb into that peabrain, if she lives to be a hundred. Oh, sorry, she will not be living to a hundred, she will have reached over and switched off her life support system by then.

How old is she, anyway?

Has she heard that "We are none of us infallible, not even the youngest of us" ?

Nothing much to say really is there? She has her opinion and I suppose she is entitled to air it. What do they say about publicity... it can never be bad?

It's all a bit muddled, isn't it? It's like the ramblings of a stroppy teenager. Part of it seems to be about old people with dementia, but the rest is just a general rant against old people being 'in the way'!

Hard to get over-exercised about what this ignorant woman thinks or puts on Twitter...

She is known as 'rent a mouth' Elegran and has upset many people with her rantings. I don't know anyone who takes her seriously and I personally ignore her. She thrives on publicity.

I look forward to her getting a middle-aged spread and losing a few marbles. Not all of them, just enough to make her lose her confidence and be dependent on the goodwill of brash young clones of herself.

What a lovely word Elegran "Doolallity" I love it, and have added it to my list of words I like to use.

Just shows she knows absolutely nothing about dementia.

I have an aunt in excellent physical health who has been in a very nice care home for the past six years. She recognises me when she sees me and we have wonderfully surreal conversations. The fact that once I have gone she forgets I have been is immaterial to either of us.

Yes, she needs a lot of care but she is engaging and pleasant. What right has some ignorant woman like this to decide on the quality of life someone like that has. Unless you can inhabit the mind of the person with dementia you can not make any judgement on their quality of life. It may seem limited and unpleasant to her, but, to be honest, from my point of view, her life sounds very unattractive and lacking in value. Should we put her down?

The only way Katie makes any money is from being controversial. I don't believe that she even believes half of what she says. I can imagine her sitting at home thinking of something to say that will annoy people and get her on tv or a newspaper column. It's usually mums she insults and now it's the elderly. Silly woman doesn't she know we're all bored with her and don't give two hoots about her opinions. When she's old she'll be clinging to life kicking and screaming.

And making barbed remarks about the young people who are taking care of her.

As someone who is about to go and see my, sometimes, obnoxious mother I feel well qualified to comment. Katie Hopkins is an idiot!

I was shocked too by Ian Botham's revelation that he didn't go and see his father for the last six months of his life because he didn't want to remember him in that state.

Words fail me!

Visiting elderly relatives is often depressing and very often you feel you're on a hiding to nothing but we do it and I suppose, in a way, we hope our children will want to do it for us.

My brother is recovering from cancer treatment so hasn't been to see mum since before Christmas. I've been keeping him updated via facebook pms and have made a point of stating the positive things, keeping it all upbeat as I felt he had enough to deal with. Mum's dementia is not disturbing, she isn't violent or agitated but just lives in her own little world.

How wrong I was, He went to see her yesterday and I had an e-mail from my Sis-in-Law last night telling me how upset he was to find her so frail (She's nearly 96 and bedridden!) She took a while to remember who he was because she hasn't seen him for months and has dementia. Apparently, he would have been better prepared if I'd been more honest.

I see mum twice a week, we listen to music, sing, eat maltesers and talk nonsense.

That's all it will be from now on - you have to accept the 'state' as it's not their fault.

If Cari hadn't said those words were Katie Hopkins', I would have attributed them to my father. He would say 'just shoot me!' and if Dignitas had been operating here in the UK, he'd have gone there in a taxi and not bothered to leave a note to say where he was. There's a distinct lack of empathy and emotion, although she asserts her views passionately, but probably for effect.
If she was running a dementia care home, the patients would be going down the laundry shute. She's certainly found a niche for keeping herself in the spotlight. She must be a horrendous mother, I'm sorry to say - her lack of consideration for other people's feelings seems to apply to everyone.

I have seen this woman a few times on TV and I agree 100% with what annemac says above. She doesn't believe most of what she says herself. She says something ridiculous and lots of TV companies invite her on and pay her. It is what is known as a nice little earner.

Of course this horrible woman is being outrageous in order to continue raising her profile. I suppose what we should do is just ignore her, but traces of these sorts of views are trickling into the mainstream (people, not necessarily just elderly people, being described as "a burden" - and even describing themselves in that way).

Given that KH is still a relatively young woman, I wonder if she will be quite so willing, when she is older and perhaps declining in health, to write herself off in this way. And if she really wants to bring her children up to be so lacking in compassion and selfish, I pity them and anyone whose paths they cross.

Someone with signifcantly declining mental faculties would not have the capacity to agree to "assisted suicide" - I think the term for despatching people without their informed consent is "euthanasia".

I want to read the original article in the Sun. Anyone got a link?

What is most disturbing is to read that she she wants 'do not resuscitate' on her forehead at 60, so presumably she thinks 60 is the age at which we should all be put down. She hasn't got that long to go then, has she?

Let us hope that some Gnetters will still be around, hale and hearty, to help her on her way when she reaches that great age.

I think it would be interesting to start a list of what she will be expressing an opinion (controversial of course) on next. A couple of ideas from me
Obesity
Single Mothers
Bus passes for the retired
The Royal family
That is of course if she hasn't already commented I try not to follow her ranting too closely.

petallus, just put The Sun in your search box. Or Kate Hopkins.

'Katie'

Actually, having looked myself it seems you can't read The Sun online any more without 'joining up', which I'm certainly not going to do. You'll just have to make do with the gist of Ms Hopkins' column, petallus!

Eloethan Actually, I think the term for despatching people without their informed consent is called murder!

She will be joining the multi-millionaire Chris Huhne in complaining that we Gnetters stole our children's future. (Except that he writes in the Guardian not the Sun.)

I am bemused by the fact that some old woman or man, having paid taxes all their lives, sit shivering in their home eking out their pension, having stolen the future of these rich, pompous mouth-pieces.

Presumably if we all start forgetting what we ate for lunch yesterday they can start the elimination programme. That's called genocide.

I'm increasingly gobsmacked reading this thread.