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How the care crisis is making old age a nightmare
At 9am the 1,000 beds at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge were full. Senior nurses gathered together to spin through the state of play. “It’s not a fabulous bed state,” Julie Clayton, the hospital’s operations centre manager, said as she collated the news from each ward, marking the numbers of potential empty beds up on a board on the wall. That was an enormous understatement, but the atmosphere was calmly professional as they faced the start to a pretty typical day.
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This is a fine story, and definitely belongs in /t/aging. If there isn’t a spare slot, may I suggest nixing it from /t/usa to free one up?