Annie McLelland is sick of fighting.

“We have had to fight all our lives to get where we are and at my age we shouldn’t have to fight any more,” she says. The 87 year-old, from High Blantyre cares for her 47-year-old son Tom, who has severe learning disabilities.

“I don’t sleep well at nights because if something happened to me I don’t know what he would do,” she says. “He would probably just sit there.”

“I am 87 and I’m on medication to help with strokes. They have promised me to care for him when I die but I don’t know who will care for him, what they will do or what they will be like.”

McLelland is far from alone in her plight. But yesterday the Scottish Government announced new help for McLelland and thousands of others like her.

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To read more, see the full article. (Herald Scotland. 27 June 2010)