During this pandemic there was a brief realization of how messed up old age is being taken care of in my country - suddenly there was a huge amount of illegal c

During this pandemic there was a brief realization of how messed up old age is being taken care of in my country - suddenly there was a huge amount of illegal care centers (which were "discovered" due to covid outbreaks). But I don't think the problem were the illegal care centers, they exist because people can't afford regular care centers, or there aren't enough of them, and I'll even go through the length of saying that maybe most of those illegal places do their best with the conditions they have - of course, that's not enough. I do blame social services though. It's not like the existence of such facilities wasn't known, despite social services displaying a show of shock about the realization that there were HUNDREDS of illegal homes. They just never cared about it, it was a non-issue. Instead of proactively fix the problem, either by making those illegal homes compliant, or using them as a reference that there were gaps in the market... no they served it's purpose and they were fine with that. Worst, apparently in a lot legal care centers there were a lot of messed up things going around (dehydration, old people under stress with, etc). No standards, no regulators, it's old people after all - those were the cracks in our services and in our society. The cracks were already there, covid just brought them to the light.