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Original feedback for

Suffolk County Council


Lack of accommodation

I am 83 my balance is rapidly deteriorating and I live in a remote rural location. I have attempted to get into very sheltered housing close to my partner and within reach of basic services ie a clinic, shops, Ipswich Hospital and arrange of amenities. I have been turned down by Suffolk CC social services and expected to make my own arrangements. Suffolk CC place care home level people with, for example, dementia, those who are wheelchair bound and even the blind in very sheltered accommodation thus enabling those like myself, your organisation to use a current rest home avoiding an 'elephant in the room' which distracts from a more basic problem, in short you concentrate on soft targets.