'Old age, so the saying goes, is the only disease you don't look forward to being cured of.  But there are many who would denounce this perception of old age as a period of grim and inevitable decline as simply wrong.  Among them is Hazel Heath ... She's convinced that caring for older people is more vital than ever before.  "Nursing older people is a speciality of the present and the future" she says. "There's a tendency to see older people as a race apart, but they're ourselves in the future ... The service we create will be the service we inherit".'  Nick Jackson. The Independent. Feb 17 2005. p 16-17.