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The cruelty of the care home visit ban

21 October 2020

4:20 PM

21 October 2020

4:20 PM

The loneliest pandemic deaths are in ‘care’ homes. Old people with dementia and people of all ages with severe mental disabilities do not understand why their families have stopped visiting them. The people they loved, often the only people they would allow to brush their teeth, dress and feed them, have vanished for no reason they can understand.

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