The biggest industry in the region is that of the Elderly.
The Elderly are not old people but a market.
The people who target the Elderly market include;
1. Developers - build more and more places to die in, deliberately attracting the Elderly from outside of the region.
2. Care homes - employers of the majority of Filopino workers as nursing staff and a substantial number of East Europeans as carers and cleaners, this industry operates dozens of facilities and provides the “last gasp” care.
3. Church groups - they may never have seen them when they were young and healthy, but the myriad religious organisations love to take into their folds those on their way to the great beyond - even if we all know they still don’t really believe but are hedging their bets.
4. Charities - plenty of these offering everything from “day centres” where those with no where else to go can sit like a vegetable in the company of other veggies, to Mobility groups who recklessly stick senile or sadistic elderly in machines too powerful for them to drive safely and then point them at groups of civilians.
5. Charity Shops - these offer to help “clear junk” (remove unrealised antiques) and sell back to them old clothes - from some recently died OAP - that poor people in 3rd world countries wouldn’t be seen dead wearing.
6. Clubs - from bowls and flower arranging to dribbling in front of a telly, Littlehampton has it all.
7. Funeral Directors - This is their El Dorado! Some even have patrol cars, there is so much business.
