Friday 7 June 2019

UK running out of care home places, says geriatrics society chief

UK running out of care home places, says geriatrics society chief Quality of care for older people set to fall and ‘wheels could come off completely’, says Tahir Masud.

The UK is running out of care home places and soon there will not be enough to look after the growing number of vulnerable older people needing specialist care, the president of the British Geriatrics Society has warned.

Prof Tahir Masud, fears that because so many care homes have collapsed in the past few years that the quality of those left will also decline as a result. The Guardian

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