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00:06 Save our home! Save our home!
00:13 Montrose won't close! Montrose won't close!
00:16 This is going to have a devastating effect on my mother.
00:19 This has been her home for four and a half years
00:21 and what the council are doing in effect is evicting her from her home.
00:25 My name is Natasha Martin and I am a social care worker at Montrose Care Home.
00:30 So today we wanted to, we really wanted to let people know about our campaign,
00:36 make the public aware of the fact that our home has been proposed for closure.
00:41 We feel that it really is a situation that we need to highlight.
00:47 We cannot see our residents relocated to a different home.
00:52 We do think that the impact would be devastating on them.
00:56 So that is our campaign, is to try and let the council know that we are not,
01:01 we're not willing to accept it. We're fighting for our residents, for our residents' rights.
01:07 Relocation for somebody who is, you know, able-bodied and young would be stressful enough,
01:13 but actually for somebody who is elderly in their 90s,
01:17 when they've been in that setting for say five years, to be relocated to a different place,
01:23 we believe that the impact is going to be absolutely devastating on their mental wellbeing and their physical wellbeing.
01:30 We feel that it's actually, you know, almost against their rights as people.
01:33 That's their home. To relocate them just seems wrong.
01:36 Please think carefully about this. The impact of it is going to be absolutely dire.
01:42 Our residents, they know us so incredibly well. They trust us. We love them dearly.
01:48 To move them and to separate all of us is going to have such a devastating impact.
01:54 We really feel that Montrose Care Home is a fantastic home.
01:57 The Care Commission has reported that in the past.
02:00 We're known as a very, very good care home, so to close it just seems incredibly unfair and just wrong.
02:07 So the families in general haven't been given all the information that they should have been given.
02:13 So they're feeling very, very uncertain.
02:16 And obviously it's a huge worry because they know that the impact on their parents or relatives could actually be fatal.
02:25 And that's the truth of it. The stress of this can cause and it will lead to fatalities. I'm quite sure of that.
02:33 My name is Deborah Stafford and I'm representing my mother, Joyce McMenamie, who is a resident in Montrose Care Home.
02:39 To be honest, we weren't informed very fully at all.
02:42 There were meetings held at the end of last year, two meetings that some of the residents, relatives never even heard about.
02:48 We did eventually get to one at the end of January. That was it.
02:52 And then as of last Friday, we were told the decision will be made tomorrow.
02:56 And if a care home is closing, it will be Montrose.
03:00 I feel absolutely disgusted. This is my mother's home.
03:03 This is not just a relative's living in a care facility.
03:07 This is their home. This has been my mother's home for four and a half years.
03:10 This is where she feels safe. This is the environment she knows.
03:14 There are also people there who have been there for over 10 years.
03:18 And unfortunately, these people, some of these people will not survive this move.
03:22 It is disgusting that the council yet again are putting the most vulnerable of our society at risk.
03:27 This has to stop. This is immoral. This cannot go ahead.
03:31 You have to think about the elderly people of your society who have lived and worked all their lives.
03:38 My mother has dementia. I haven't told her yet because I know this will completely and utterly disrupt her.
03:45 And she will be very, very unsettled.
03:47 So I haven't told her as yet because I just don't know how she's going to be.
03:51 Everybody's of exactly the same view that it's disgusting the way it's been handled.
03:55 It's disgusting that it's even been considered.
03:58 Nobody has thought about the people concerned in this.
04:02 They tell us they have, but we feel that they haven't.
04:04 My name's Claire and I'm a social care worker.
04:07 And all I've got to say is we're the voice for the people who can't speak for themselves.
04:10 They're vulnerable. The staff jobs are completely safe. We're not here for us. We're here for them.
04:15 I hope the council change their mind and don't close any of the care homes.
04:18 We need them all. We need more care in this community, not less.
04:21 They're all heartbroken and worried and stressed, but it's not for themselves. It's for the vulnerable.
04:26 Everybody here is here because they care about individual people.
04:30 We're not numbers. They're not numbers. They're individual human beings.
04:33 The thing is, we know because people will be scared. They'll be worried.
04:38 They have no idea what's going to happen to them.
04:40 There's some people, their mental wellbeing will dramatically be affected.
04:45 It's just a really sad thing to see.
04:48 Save our home! Save our home! Save our home!
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