800,000 vulnerable elderly abandoned by state

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elderly woman drinking
elderly woman drinking

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Age Concern and the British Geriatrics Society are calling on the government to take radical action now, warning that 800,000 vulnerable elderly people are falling through the net of state help.

They say these people have been abandoned by the state system, which has left them to fend for themselves. So what can be done?

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