Nurses are being let into care homes WITHOUT coronavirus tests in loophole that makes a mockery of the system, warns chairman of National Care Association Health workers can walk in and out of different homes without a need for a test The situation has been branded an unfair and risky loophole in virus precautions But relatives who … Read more
During my father Leslie’s final months, his worsening dementia meant that he spent much of his time staring into the middle distance. He was sedated by tranquillisers, and the twinkle in his eye I remembered as a boy had long gone. Yet there would still be glimmers of my old dad, the man whose wonderful … Read more
The care home that proves testing WORKS: How residents at one home in Lancashire can be surrounded by loved ones after bosses offer routine Covid tests to family members Move at the Kepplegate home in Poulton-le-Fylde has enabled face-to-face visits Care home resident Audrey able to celebrate turning 90 with family by her side The home … Read more
After 52 years of marriage, Dave and Irene Stallard are as devoted to each other as the day they met at college — bound together by a lifetime of shared happy memories. Nothing could separate them; not the stroke which felled Dave 16 years ago, nor the heart problems which nearly killed him ten years … Read more
Families face a heartbreaking postcode lottery over Christmas visits to their loved ones in care homes, with the elderly still facing council bans in parts of Britain. Despite ministers saying last week that residents should be allowed to have visitors, an audit by the Mail has revealed at least eight areas of the country where … Read more
Emotional moment a 92-year-old care home resident sees her son through a window in their first reunion for months Freda Maddison is a resident at Eothen Homes in Wallsend in North Tyneside Has not been able to see son Stephen since new restrictions on carehome visits On Friday they met again thanks to a special … Read more
Good Morning Britain viewers were left in tears after a wife who moved into her husband’s care home revealed he’s been ‘brighter’ since her arrival. Earlier this week footage emerged of the emotional moment devoted wife Betty Meredith, 91, from Birmingham, surprised her husband Kenneth, 96, who has dementia, after deciding to move into his care … Read more
I’m handling my late uncle’s estate and I’ve recently been made aware of a ‘deferred payment arrangement’ with his local council amounting to approximately £16,000. I asked for a copy of the DPA but it’s unsigned and I’ve also discovered that no legal charge was made by the council. The council has not formally asked … Read more
The heartbreaking image that appeared on the front page of yesterday’s Daily Mail proved beyond doubt that Britain’s shameful treatment of its care home residents needs to end. Showing a loving wife having to kneel in the street to see her husband’s face through a metal railing, it was yet more disturbing proof that the … Read more
When this is all over, when the coronavirus has finally scuttled off like a whipped cur and life begins to return to normal, will we be proud of what we did and how we coped as a nation? Or will a feeling of quiet shame creep across the populace as we contemplate the worst of … Read more