A million elderly people lack basic social care as unprecedented funding cuts leave struggling NHS to pick up the pieces

A million elderly people lack basic social care as unprecedented funding cuts leave struggling NHS to pick up the pieces The number of elderly people who need help with basic tasks, but have been left to struggle by an unprecedented withdrawal of state-funded social care, has hit one million, experts believe. The Independent

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