Elderly residents are at risk of being forced to leave a Valleys care home after a council revealed plans to redevelop the building into a facility for people with learning disabilities. Families of the residents fear being separated from their loved ones while one family claims the move could be too much for their elderly grandmother.
It comes as Rhondda Cynon Taf Council is currently consulting upon major proposals to invest in residential care services including three new facilities offering extra care and dementia care, a fourth new accommodation for adults with learning disabilities at Garth Olwg Care Home, and the retention of five council care homes. The consultation for Garth Olwg Care Home closed on Friday, January 27, and the cabinet will consider the feedback before deciding on these proposals.
Residents and families at Garth Olwg are devastated by the proposal to close the care home. The family of resident Joyce Crocker, who is turning 94 in March, said she had only been at Garth Olwg Care Home for five months after moving from a Pontypridd care home last September. You can read more about the Pontypridd Care Centre closure here. Relative Christina Caddy told WalesOnline that her grandmother-in-law Joyce has suffered from ill health since the "stressful move" from the Pontypridd care home.
