Derbyshire county council’s cabinet has given the green light to a £200m plan that will see the closure of up to 20 care homes, replacing them with

Marking Derbyshire’s biggest ever investment in specialist housing, day care and residential services for older people, the scheme aims to deliver ‘dementia-friendly care and state-of-the art accommodation’ to hundreds of older people across the county over the next five to seven years.The extra care housing scheme will consist of 1,600 one and two-bedroomed apartments available…