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‘Ageing in place’: austerity, hostility and the pandemic

By Majella Kilkey The ongoing pandemic has spotlighted the underlying fragility of England’s social care system. Much of the attention has been focused on residential care homes, in which the first wave of the pandemic saw an extraordinary number of excess deaths among residents.  The majority of older people in England who receive care for… Continue reading ‘Ageing in place’: austerity, hostility and the pandemic