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Do not accept visits by appointment only in care homes; check whether your relatives' skin is intact or if they have dressings, and always trust your instincts. Column by Carmen Garcia
The municipal council has also secured additional generators, including “a very powerful one” that “allows them to open another extraction borehole”.
Care homes and other social facilities were left without power and communications, forcing improvised solutions to maintain basic services. In some institutions, strong winds tore off roofs, causing water to seep into the interior of buildings. Repair costs could run into “millions of euros”.
In Alcácer do Sal the Sado River overflowed its banks and flooded the town, forcing the precautionary evacuation of a care home, reports CNN Portugal reporter Sofia Garcia.
The programme “A Prova dos Factos” investigated a care home in Catribana, where elderly residents are alleged to have died due to a lack of care.
This concerns snowfall in some municipalities of the Viseu district.
PRESS REVIEW || There are cases where monthly costs have risen by hundreds of euros in a few years
Portuguese reporting indicates a sharp rise in monthly fees at some care homes — increases of roughly €500 — driven largely by a persistent labour shortage and higher operating costs. The hikes are prompting families to withdraw elderly relatives, intensifying pressure on informal care networks and raising equity and access concerns for vulnerable patients. Economically, the trend highlights how rising labour costs and constrained staffing can be passed directly to users in minimally regulated markets, with implications for social policy, funding models and workforce recruitment/retention. Separately, French coverage notes a demobilisation of farmers’ protests in Paris, underscoring a wider context of labour and sectoral tensions across services and primary production.
