86-year-old man caring for his disabled wife says 'I am at breaking point'

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As squeeze on social care funding intensifies

86-year-old man caring for his disabled wife says ‘I am at breaking point' as squeeze on social care funding intensifies

Michael Knowles, Reporter / Thursday 3 December 2015 / News

An elderly man says he has been driven to a nervous breakdown because of failures in social care.

Ralph Wakeling, 86, has spent the last ten years caring for his disabled wife with support from carers.

But the father of three says carers do not turn up when they are supposed to, forcing him to get his wife out of bed, wash her, and lift her into a stair lift so she can get to the toilet.

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