86-year-old man caring for his disabled wife says ‘I am at breaking point’ as squeeze on social care funding intensifies
Michael Knowles, Reporter / / News
A Norfolk retired teacher, who asked to remain anonymous for the privacy of the individual involved, makes a poignant case for a major rethink of our welfare state.
It’s not sensational enough to make the news. No emaciated ribs, he wasn’t found face-down, drowned in the gutter. It’s just a story telling us something about the Britain we choose to live in. It’s a story of institutionalised neglect. About how someone, just like you or me, becomes a mere statistic.
A man of 96 – never been ill in his life.
86-year-old man caring for his disabled wife says ‘I am at breaking point’ as squeeze on social care funding intensifies
Michael Knowles, Reporter / Thursday 3 December 2015 / News
An elderly man says he has been driven to a nervous breakdown because of failures in social care.
Ralph Wakeling, 86, has spent the last ten years caring for his disabled wife with support from carers.
But the father of three says carers do not turn up when they are supposed to, forcing him to get his wife out of bed, wash her, and lift her into a stair lift so she can get to the toilet.
By Sophie Jane Evans for MailOnline
A 97-year-old man thought to be Britain’s oldest surviving prisoner of war is living in fear of eviction six months after his council vowed to meet his care costs – and allegedly failed to keep its promise.
Robbie Clark, one of the few UK soldiers to have survived Hitler’s 1,000-mile death march, is also surviving on charity handouts at his north London home, where he has lived for the past 50 years.
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