Canvey Couple have been ‘abandoned’ by social services

Rita Cameron, 76, says her husband Raymond, 79, has been constantly wetting the bed at their mobile home in Kings Park, Canvey, due to his condition.

Mrs Cameron says her husband has lived with dementia for the best part of eight years, but it has considerably worsened in the past year.

She says social services under Essex County Council have previously promised to give her husband a bed in a hospital, at least temporarily as respite care, but have let them down.

She said: “Raymond has nowhere to sleep. He constantly wets the bed and leaves it dripping. He’s always falling off it and injuring himself.

“We’ve had to go in and out of the hospital because he keeps hurting himself, I worry he will just hurt himself more and more now.

“I don’t know what to do. We have been told several times by social services they will help us, but they’ve broken their promise each time.

“I just want him to have a good bed to sleep in. It’s just disgusting.”

Mrs Cameron says she is on a limited income, and the couple do not have any family members who can help them.

She said social services are now ignoring her calls and her husband is in desperate need of some help.

She said: “We had someone who spoke to us on the phone who said we would be able to get a bed for Raymond, but then he turned it around and said it wasn’t possible.

“Now the social worker is ignoring me, I can’t get any answer, and Raymond has nowhere to go.

“We’ve been abandoned, it’s so disgusting and I have nowhere else to turn.

“They keep changing their mind. I’m living off a £1,000 overdraft, I have very little money, and no means to help him.”

A spokesman for Essex County Council said: “Essex County Council is currently supporting Mr and Mrs Cameron with an appropriate care package and other options in terms of assessment and support are available to them.” No more details were provided.