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A healthy alternative?

Yvonne Watt, senior housing care worker with Trust Housing Association, has just asked one of her elderly tenants: “What do you think of your new home, Bridie?”

“No bad,” says 76-year-old Bridie Fulton right away. But her husband John scoffs affectionately. “That’s all she ever says. I bought her a diamond ring when she was in hospital, and asked if she liked it.