Failure for Feet

A NEW campaign has started to help improve foot care services for elderly people.

Age Concern in North Tyneside says older people are being left housebound and disabled by a lack of foot care.

Sandra Gray, head of health and social care at Age Concern North Tyneside, said: “Foot care services in North Tyneside are all too often failing older people.

“Some of the older people Age Concern has talked to are taking desperate measures including cutting their nails with gardening shears or kicking solid walls in their bare feet to break their nails. This would have been unacceptable in 1948 when the NHS was created, and it is certainly unacceptable nearly 60 years later.”

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