Daily Express – Social care crisis: ‘It feels like they don’t want him to come back to me’
The Daily Express leads on an elderly man who has been put in a care home hundreds of miles from his wife. The paper says the ‘scandal exposes the crumbling social care system.’
Pensioner forced to travel 260 miles to visit husband due to care shortages
A DISTRAUGHT wife has exposed the crisis in Britain’s crumbling social care system by explaining how she has been forced to undertake a 260-mile round trip just to see her husband of more than 50 years.
Brian Clapham, 76, is in a care home suffering from dementia but has been placed 130 miles away from the family home in Essex.
His loving wife Fenella has been battling for two years to move him closer so she can see him more regularly but with no avail.
Despairing Fenella, 72, admitted: “It feels like they don’t want him to come back to me.”
Fenella and Brian, who have seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren, were inseparable for 50 years until he fell ill and was moved to a nursing home in Surrey.
She has been fighting to get Brian, a retired a gas service layer who suffers from vascular dementia, moved closer to his family.
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Editorial 27 September 2024.
Friday’s front pages have a real mix of international and domestic stories, from Boris Johnson’s memoir to the latest in the Middle East.
Several papers lead on Chancellor Rachel Reeves, suggesting she is to ‘tone down’ her non-dom crackdown plans after it was revealed there were fears the crackdown won’t bring in extra money to the Treasury. There are other stories about the chancellor and her upcoming Budget on the front pages – and online – as the papers speculate what she has planned for the British economy.