CORRESPONDENT Jean Allison asks: "What choices to the elderly have?" Well, they would have more choice but for Thatcher's encouragement of private homes.
The Tory Government of the 1980s caused local authorities to close most of their homes by offering DSS payments for patients who went into private homes, but no funds to councils for those in local authority homes.
J. HOLDEN
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