As things stand, an elderly person with dementia and a heart condition might receive free NHS check-ups for the heart, pay for care in a residential home, have some support from their local authority, and receive disability benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions.
When thinking about where to start, my best advice is to follow your heart, pay attention to where you feel called, what interests, outrages or inspires you.
The Purple Heart pays homage to a merit badge created by George Washington, at a moment when his Continental army of citizen-soldiers was near mutiny, starved of pay and rations by the Congress of the day, after years of combat against the better-equipped professionals of the British army.
Take heart: Paying top dollar gets you a good education, but there are always attractive and far cheaper publicly funded alternatives available.
Hearts paid HMRC £450,000 in December and negotiated a repayment plan for a separate £1.5m tax bill, the first instalment of which has been met.
But, although Hearts paid salaries outstanding from December, they must now deliver this month's wages by 16 January to avoid possible sanctions.
As my boss put it so simply, everyone wants to get paid for the talents and skills we bring to a workplace, which is at the heart of pay parity whether you're me or you're a black man, transgendered or somebody over 60 — basically anyone who doesn't fit the norm in tech of the white 30-year-old male.
In the words of one Reddit user, Tequila13, "There's vision of a future where every phone will have a mining chip, and people out the goodness of their heart will pay for the mining chip and will mine at a loss for the greater good.
"Come live in my heart and pay no rent," I said to him.
"I incurred that debt... I... myself... and it is mine and I want... with all my heart to pay it off".
In 2008, the heart association paid its longtime chief executive, M. Cass Wheeler, who was retiring, a total of $995,424.
