OLD AGE WITH HONOUR: THE NEW WAY OF DEALING WITH POVERTY
... Old Age with Honour. THE NEW WAY OF DEALING WITH POVERTY. By Percy Alden, M.P. The sight of the aged recipients of Poor-Law relief leaving the workhouse to reassume the status of citizenship, which has been forfeited owing to poverty, brings to my mind scenes I witnessed in the old-age homes of Copenhagen. The Danish method of dealing with the aged, while it grants a pension at a lower age, ...