Care Homes Special Report
"Many reading this feature will one day become part of the group we call the vulnerable."
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| Michael Casey |
GAZETTE reporter Michael Casey says he has been shocked by his investigation, saying: "There is a great likelihood that many reading this feature will one day become part of the group we call the vulnerable.
"100,000 people every year sell their homes to pay for care. 25 per cent of the elderly live below the poverty line. The NHS now provides 33 per cent less beds for the elderly than it did in 1978.
"Thurrock Council have just made radical cuts to non-residential care and the future as it stands for care in the borough looks uncertain."
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