Kirkcudbright care home resident celebrates 100th birthday in lockdown

hugely damaging to residents' health, especially if they live with dementia.Now, care home bosses and charities are calling for a solution to enable safe visitation.Earlier this month, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham spoke of testing for residents and visitors and vowed 'to have a look' at the issue.But on Thursday, a spokesman from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority said: "Under the current central Government measures, local areas with increased restrictions are advised to not

care home resident has made a plea for visiting rules to be eased so she can spend more time with her family.In a video message, Mary Fowler said the coronavirus restrictions mean her care home has been "like a prison".She urged people to get involved with campaigns to allow relatives more access, and she said many care home residents must be in the same position of wanting to see their children "at the end of their life".She said: "I just want to say, it's just been like a prison in here."We're

mum “just wants to die” after being left in a care home without proper family contact for six months.Allan Cairns has watched retired shop worker Nan – who turns 80 next week – lose three stone over the course of lockdown.Visiting has been restricted to shouting down a ramshackle path to a fire escape door where she is wheeled out, weather permitting, for just 30 minutes a week.Allan, 43, an engineer from Cardonald, Glasgow, now believes she is suffering from depression and has given up on

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Safety first as Perth College UHI students return However, new home manager Cheryl Banks says it is quite the opposite.“I was shocked when I learned so many staff were related,” said Cheryl.

Manchester Evening News has spoken to care home bosses who say the major delays - nearly trebling the Government target of 'up to 72 hours' - are causing them stress and anxiety as they brace themselves for a potential second wave.

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Wigan, where Alan lives."During the pandemic, we had to put restrictions into place," said Kim Jones, the registered manager for Lakeside's sister home, Worthington Care Home."We had to restrict visits completely to emergency visits only."This stopped Alan from seeing his loved ones and, facing a fight for his life, made him fear he would never be able to again."It does affect you because you've not seen anyone for a few weeks now and they can't come in," said Alan.

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Manchester Evening News : "She's had quite a tough life, losing two husbands and three children - but has always found a way to be so positive. "Last time we saw her she was just so happy we were there but she was saying she was trapped and asking why we couldn't go out.

Perthshire care home will remain shut to visitors for 28 days after the death of a resident from COVID-19. Parkdale Care Home in Auchterarder confirmed the news on Thursday after the death of Barrie Thom, who was also a patient at St Margaret's Hospital.

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East Kilbride News the facility “should have been shut a long time ago”. The distraught family spoke of the neglect their 72-year-old relative faced and how they found him on his death bed “filthy, unshaven and with a massive bruise on his face”.That’s only after they were told he was being taken to hospital and “not to rush” there as it was “nothing too serious”.Hours later, he died from advanced pneumonia.

dementia pensioner who recorded a charity single is back on the microphone after music 'saved her' during lockdown. We told how a video of Margaret Mackie performing Frank Sinatra's My Way at her care home in Edinburgh went viral in late 2019.