The reality of dementia in lockdown

Gloucestershire County Council

Devastation has arrived in our household. My mother in-law’s care home has just written to us advising that the county council have issued a county wide edict suspending visiting in care homes over the winter period. My mother in-law suffered so much the last time she was deprived of a basic humane right to contact with her loved ones. She will not understand why she is no longer visited, she will feel abandoned, bereft and her anxiety and general agitation will rise to a level that will harm