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‘If we don’t take care of our elderly then we are not a civilised society’

The Herald’s campaign to highlight the plight of the elderly in Scotland this week has too often exposed a society that appears past caring.

 

Our exclusive reports have revealed that complaints of abuse against the elderly are on the rise and that councils are increasingly being forced to place elderly people on at-risk registers.