IN response to the letter about the plans for Clarendon Court, to reduce the number of delayed transfers of care at York Hospital (June 19), the City General on Haxby Road was used for this very purpose.

I was a care assistant for 28 years and visited the City General on several occasions. It was close to the District Hospital and large. It was then sold, knocked to the ground and replaced by flats.

Clarendon Court was my mum's home for about 15 years. She sold her own family home and paid lots of money for the privilege of living there, thinking it would be her home till she died.

Mum would have been 89 in October, but sadly she died on April 7. My sisters and I believe all the stress and anxiety over the plans for her home didn't help her well being. She certainly didn't want to leave, but didn't have a choice to stay.

The promised help and support needed for the tenants who have already left and the ones remaining can never be sufficient to compensate for the heartache felt by these elderly residents of York.

I can't help feeling the people in charge of making these decisions worry more about the money to be made and saved, rather than the feelings of the people involved.

Mrs B M Dixon,

Huntington Road,

York.

Updated: 11:41 Wednesday, July 02, 2003