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8. | GW. Look through the Fact File about health care service in Great Britain below and add your ideas about social service in Azerbaijan.

FACT FILE

Family doctors work in practices, a partnership of several GPs (GP- General Practitioner), and offer general health care. Patients can visit surgery, the GP’s office, for two or three hours in the morning and evening. GPs also make home visits. GPs are paid fees by the National Health Service (NHS) for each visit or for the number of patients on their list.

Social services try to do their best to cheer the old people up, but they don’t have much success in doing it.

At the homes the elderly patients are provided with lots of entertainment.

The Good Samaritans Group (GSG) members go out into the community to help people, including home patients for elderly people.

9. IW. Create a paragraph on "Health care in Azerbaijan".

10. | IW. Think and give the equivalents of these sayings in your native language and share your opinions. •

• Love your parents! We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.
• Live your life and forget your age! (Norman Vincent Peale)

• Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional. (Bob Monkhouse)

• Old age is just a record of one’s whole life. (Muhammad Ali)

• A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. (Chinese proverb)