02/04/2025
This excellent article in the The Telegraph has some really good advice about supporting elderly relatives, including how care homes provide a vital service.
This quote from the article from daughter pictured sums things up beautifully: "The home they opted for, costing at that time £1,000 a week, wasn’t the fanciest, but the care was good. Despite having initially been told she was just going for a fortnight, within a few days, their mum wanted to stay. “She’d been forgetting to eat, not doing the washing up, putting things under the grill and forgetting about them, and messaging my sister at all times of the night. Suddenly, all that stress was gone,”.
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