We Should Think About the Lives of Elderly and What We Can Do to Help ; I Had Decided That by Friday I Would Have a Better Understanding, Albeit Just a Snippet, of What Life Might Be Like for Our Elderly Residents. But I Still Wanted to Get Some Other Perspectives.

Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › April 02, 2009

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I had decided that by Friday I would have a better understanding, albeit just a snippet, of what life might be like for our elderly residents. But I still wanted to get some other perspectives.

The weekend was different - the family were home; I was busy, I could get into a car and I had people to talk to.

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We Should Think About the Lives of Elderly and What We Can Do to Help ; I Had Decided That by Friday I Would Have a Better Understanding, Albeit Just a Snippet, of What Life Might Be Like for Our Elderly Residents. But I Still Wanted to Get Some Other Perspectives.

I took the bus to the city and met members of the Devon Pensioners' Action Forum in Cathedral Close. I wanted to get their take on what the real financial issues are for our older people.

Colin Hadley, the group's chairman, explained...

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