By Geraldine Bedell on 22 June, 2010
Angelo Marcellini is 75 and lives in sheltered housing in London. When he’s in the lift, his fellow residents won’t join him. If he comes in, they leave. Only two of the households on his floor speak to him. Angelo is gay. The managers of his sheltered housing are evangelical Christians and they won’t help [...]
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By Geraldine Bedell on 10 June, 2010
Five years ago, Jayne Nelson watched her 94 year-old mother die. ‘She refused to leave home and she complained of loneliness all the time. It was so painful to watch. She somehow felt my sister and I should be able to sort it out, although neither of us lived nearby. Knowing what I’d felt about [...]
Posted in Blog, Design, Health & Social Care, News | Tagged Barnet, Camden, carers, Chuck Durrett, cohousing, GLA, Hanover Housing Association, housing associations, Islington, Jayne Nelson, Ken Livingstone, Kent University, mixed tenure, OWCH, Shirley Meredeen, social housing, The Housing Corporation, women’s studies |