Here is another smart idea from over the pond and up a bit. Canada is converting vacant shopping centres into housing stock for their senior citizens, with their food vending areas repurposed as communal dining halls. We could do it for families as well, so there would be a better age mix. Include some halfway house care areas to help with the bed blocking in hospitals, hostels, actual corner shop-type venues and pubs too to add to the overall profit margin. This would help t

Hospitals suffer from bed blocking because, sadly, people have nowhere to go and therefore cannot be discharged. When the Conservatives were in power, I encouraged ministers to expand the shared lives scheme, where ordinary people could be paid to take in and look after the elderly and the sick. This scheme could cover both care and nursing care. The money paid to individual households to provide such services would stay in the community and help to revi