"I just feel forgotten. I think most pensioners are."
It's one of the first things 77-year old Doreen Ahmed says as we sit down at the kitchen table of her Moston home. Doreen lives alone, and struggles to get out and about by herself. Her children have mostly left Manchester, and as she became more and more isolated, figuring out how she could afford to get healthy, nutritious food delivered to her door was becoming a worry.
Like so many others, Doreen told the Manchester Evening News she had been reluctant to ask for help. "I didn't think there was anything out there for me," she said. On her quiet road, which she says is completely occupied by pensioners, many of whom are housebound, its easy to see how someone like her could fall through the cracks.
