Donald Macaskill issued a dire warning to Scottish Government ministers about the situation in homes across the country.
A care homes chief has warned a large number of facilities could close in Scotland if issues around the cost-of-living and NHS crises are not addressed.
Macaskill told the BBC's Sunday Show: "Unless we address those issues we will not have a social care sector for older people in terms of residential care worth its name by next spring." "We have estimated that between 30 and 40 per cent of that total, unless we address as you rightly say soaring energy costs, soaring food costs, workforce costs, not least agencies and a whole manifold range of real pressures, not least of which is spiralling numbers of people falling ill to the flu.
"You do not want in your 90s having arrived at a place where you were finally able to be supported in your advanced dementia to be informed that you're going to have to move to a different place because that care home cannot sustain itself.
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