Sixteen elderly, frail pensioners, including one entering her 101st year without her sight, will have to leave the Eastfield Nursing Home in Aigburth, Liverpool, within weeks.
In 1999, around 800 care homes closed in the UK with the loss of 15,000 beds - and since then the closers have continued, especially in council run homes, where many have gone into the hands of profit seeking landlords, now these privately run places are complaining that they are not as profitable and closing them down. One of the reasons cited by owners of privately run care homes are that building luxury flats is more profitable.
And, when homes do close, many residents forced to move at their most vulnerable time of life can pay the ultimate price.
Chief executive of Liverpool Age Concern, Dil Daley, said: "There is widespread evidence of deaths associated with the closure of care homes. "People get very worried and anxious, which leads to illness and other awful consequences."
If homes continue to close, it will also become increasingly difficult to find care places for those elderly ready to leave hospital - the bed-blocking syndrome.
The government is so concerned about bed blocking it made an extra £300m available to local authorities to cut the problem, through funding extra care home places and expanding home care packages.
In Liverpool in the past two years, the Liberal Democrats have cut the social services budget by £16m; meaning elderly people are left in the hands of money grabbing landlords.
PNP believe the treatment of our elderly is clear example of the way this profit driven system sees all of us. When we are useful to them, they'll chuck us some crumbs, when we cannot provide profit for them, they'll disregard us like rubbish. If we had a system where all our labour and resources were used for the benefit of us all, we could all look forward to our later years as a time of relaxation and enjoyment.