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.
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.