The Registered Nursing Home Association has reacted angrily to comments by community care minister Stephen Ladyman that older people are "banged up" in care homes.
During a Commons debate last week, he said: "The government want people to be able to choose where they spend their retirement, while the Conservatives want everyone to be banged up in a care home."
RNHA chief executive Frank Ursell said: "We think it is a slur on the thousands of nurses and care assistants who look after the elderly.
"It must have caused a great deal of unnecessary anxiety to any older person about to enter a care home," he added.
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