Rachel sleeps in a chair when she can’t get into bed. She used to have a team of care workers to help her move, cook and clean, but as government cuts came in throughout the 2010s they have all been axed. Elli walks with a cane, but since her care hours have been halved she trips more than she should. Once, she fell on her bathroom floor and waited five hours for help to come. Pete used to have full-time carers that enabled him to live at home, including someone to help him use equipment to swallow his food, but this got cut a few years back. Afraid of choking to death, he reluctantly agreed to sell his flat and move into a care home.
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