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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Why Are Called Care Homes?

The National Press have some strange priorities. Headlines and special supplements were devoted to a royal birth whilst the following  event got very little coverage. 'A grandmother died of malnutrition a day after being admitted to hospital from a care home where she had become so emaciated that she was described at an inquest as looking like a skeleton.' (Times, 16 August) The 88 year old weighed just 4st 12 lbs and was dehydrated after her treatment at a care home. After a life time of work this is the fate of many workers, but it will get little attention in the royalty-obsessed newspapers. RD

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