I live alone in abandoned care home...I feel like a prisoner

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A disabled woman is the only resident living in a 50-room care home after it closed down - leaving her with nowhere else to go.  Jackie Kennedy, 53, moved into the Blue Ribbon assisted living complex in January 2023 after being diagnosed with a string of chronic health issues.  She has a damaged spine which restricts her movement as well as suffering with spondylitis and fibromyalgia.  Despite enjoying a new lease of life in the sheltered housing complex in Coventry, bosses decided to close it down last year.

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00:00Due to my ill health and disabilities, I gave up a lovely house on GP calling me with Blue Ribbon Court

00:10arranging the appointment for me to come in and view the following day, which I did with a friend.

00:18She'd come around the property with me, one of the managers in the property here.

00:22I moved in when it was all occupied. It was, you know, NHS staff coming and going, ambulance crews

00:29taking patients in and out. I initially moved in on the January of 23 and then in the September of

00:372023, we were all given the Section 21 notices. It was chaos. It was, you know, patients were still

00:47obviously going to and from hospitals with the ambulance crews, you know, parents or families

00:52visiting the residents. It was nearly formed. It was just tenants were being taken in and out

00:59with the two managers in the cars and then I'd ask them when they come back, oh where did you,

01:05oh I've just been to view this building or I've just been to view that and I'm thinking, oh my

01:11turn will come. Never ever did, never. I've never been taken by anyone to view any properties, not

01:17one and I've located so many empty properties in the area that I've grew up in, in CB6. Since

01:25that I was born in Coventry, always lived in CB6 and I'm just, I don't know how I'm coping, I don't

01:32know how I'm still holding it. I'm, you know, I'm very on edge, suicidal and it's like an empty

01:41prison. I feel like I'm a criminal. They've been turning the lifts off so that I can't access

01:47getting up and down in the building. Ambulance crews have reported this when I've had them out

01:53to attend to me, that they've reported that this is a safety issue, that if people needed to get

01:59you in an emergency or if you had to get out, you know, things that this was all happening and still

02:04to this day then there's no help. There's no, you know, here's this property or we'll take,

02:10there's been none of that, no viewings at all and I don't know why. I've done nothing, absolutely

02:16nothing wrong but made the worst decision in moving here. It's, I wish I didn't make the move

02:22because I was told by my solicitor and other residents that this place is closing down.

02:30They, it was in the grapevine apparently, that so they, they knew this place was shutting down

02:37and yet they, they took me, they let me move in here knowing that I'd one day be evicted

02:43and that I had a lovely one bedroom, a house,

02:45that then they shouldn't have took me on, they shouldn't have let me move in.

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