An 80-year-old woman with multiple chronic illnesses has waited six years to be rehomed and says the stairs in her home are 'killing' her.
Nancy Brewster has lived in her current home on Penny Lane for 26 years and has been waiting six years for Onward Homes to move her to a ground floor flat or bungalow. Nancy is asthmatic, needs a hip replacement, has COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), osteoporosis and osteoarthritis but is still waiting to move house, despite doctors saying it would greatly improve her health.
Living in the three-bedroom flat means Nancy has to make her way down 13 stairs each time she has to leave and 17 to get to the back door. The 80-year-old said she is at risk of falling each time she tries to leave the house.
