"Middle-class friends face new dilemmas. How do you look after a now terminally ill 90-year-old aunt and her son with mental health problems, asks one, when both have lived off her ?600-a-month pension? Another has given her spare room to a 57-year-old graphic designer friend who cannot find work and does not qualify for dole payments. How long will he stay? A doctor ? and single mother ? admits that she worked before Christmas with flu because she could not afford to take (unpaid) sick days. 'I tried not to breathe over my patients,' she says."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/01/spain-pain-austerity-deepens
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/01/spain-pain-austerity-deepens
