Elderly Married Couples 'Can Stay Together' ; Politics

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The Government is to unveil plans to allow elderly married couples to live together if they are forced into residential care, Health Secretary Alan Johnson said yesterday.

He told delegates at Labour's Spring Conference in Birmingham: "When a couple have lived all their lives together they should not be forced apart at the end of their lives."

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Elderly Married Couples 'Can Stay Together' ; Politics

He said ministers would publish plans "to allow couples to remain together when they are forced to go in to care...

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