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No surprise and lasting anger: families of people who died in care homes react to Covid inquiry report

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The inquiry report validates families' enduring grief over pandemic isolation policies, confirming that separating loved ones in care homes caused profound, lasting trauma.

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Relatives recount distress and loneliness their loved ones went through in pandemic as a result of isolation policy“At the time it felt like a devil’s bargain – it was horrible, but it was what [we thought] we had to do to keep people safe,” says Amy of the “devastating” and “terrifying” restrictions that led to her maternal grandparents being locked down in separate care homes during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.Eva and Eric had been married for more than 60 years when her dementia and his increased frailty meant they needed separate residential support. When the first lockdown was announced in March 2020, however, it in effect cut them off from each other and their granddaughter, to whom they had been especially close after the early death of Amy’s mother. Continue reading...

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