IS THE TREATMENT OF OUR ELDERLY A TOTAL SCANDAL?

Thursday May 15,2008

A DEVOTED couple died in a suspected suicide pact because they feared being separated for the first time in their 60-year marriage.

Tom Hughes, 82, and his wife Nancie, 86, were discovered lying next to each other in their retirement flat.

Mrs Hughes’s health was failing and the pair were worried they would be moved to different care homes.

She faced being sent to a specialist home for dementia sufferers, while Mr Hughes feared being moved to a mainstream care home.

The suspected double suicide followed an official visit from social services to their home at Abergavenny, South Wales, last weekend.

DO YOU THINK OUR TREATMENT OF THE ELDERLY IS A TOTAL SCANDAL?

SHOULD ELDERLY COUPLES BE KEPT TOGETHER IN CARE HOMES?

*** HAVE YOUR SAY NOW ***