• How you can help elderly relatives escape from hospital | Letters

    Marie Davis was grateful she had registered with the Office of the Public Guardian for her mother’s care, while Dale Thomson had to resort to taking her aunt out without doctors’ permissionI was so saddened to read of elderly people being kept in hospital when they could be at home (Letters, 17 November). Almost three years ago, the same thing happened to my beloved mother. Everything was in place for her return – family care as before, warm home, hospital bed etc, yet as the d

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