Couple married for 67 years may be split up to different care homes due to lack of funding

A couple, who have been married for 67 years and never been away from each other, face the possibility of getting split up and taken to different care homes because they have no council funding. Frank Springett, 91, and his 86-year-old wife Mary are currently staying in the same care home at Wootton Wawen in the West Midlands. Unfortunately, their family is going to run out of money to pay for their private care and Joanne Downes, their daughter, is afraid that the council will send them to different care homes since both their needs are different. Downes said that the local social services department has agreed to pitch in for her mother's treatment but has made it clear that her father is well enough to live in an apartment by himself.