FIGHT IS ON TO
Montrose Care Home families blast axe decision and vow to battle against ‘disgusting’ decision
A Paisley care home will close as health and social care costs are slashed in Renfrewshire – a decision that has been slammed as “disgusting”.
Montrose Care Home in Heriot Avenue, Foxbar, will shut down in a move that comes as a blow to its elderly residents, their families and staff.
Members of the integration joint board (IJB) – responsible for oversight of Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) – voted 6-2 to reduce the care home estate yesterday, with the axe falling on Montrose.
Deborah Stafford, whose 90-year-old mum Joyce McMenemy is a resident, said: “I just feel it’s a disgusting decision and I can’t even understand why it was taken in the first place – to close a care home.
“I haven’t even told my mum yet that this was all happening because, with her dementia, this is going to completely unsettle her.
“I don’t know how she’s going to handle the move. It’s just going to be devastating.
“My view on it is that they’re evicting my mother from her home.
“This has been her home for fourand-a-half years.
“It’s her safe place, it’s where she knows, and for us now to have to uproot her and move to one of the other care facilities is going to be devastating.
“But we’re not going to go down without a fight.”
More than 2,000 people have signed a petition opposing the closure of the home and campaigners gathered at Renfrewshire House in Paisley on Thursday afternoon to make their voices heard.
Shannon Fennelly, a social care assistant at Montrose, said: “It’s absolutely shocking, more so for the residents.
“They’ve worked their whole lives to live comfortably in retirement and to be safe and protected.
“And now through no fault of their own – it’s a situation that has nothing to do with them – they’ve lost their homes. It’s unsettling.
“These residents are used to us every single day, they are used to