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Care home residents are 'losing the will to live' in prison-like homes due to lockdown, MPs told
5 monthes ago | By Daily Mail
UK charities said they'd been inundated with daily calls from concerned families about residents who have become so depressed they have started to rapidly deteriorate.
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Care home residents 'losing will to live' amid Covid restrictions in England
5 monthes ago | By The Guardian
Charity says many have been left in ‘hideous limbo' as family visits and activities remain limited Coronavirus - latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Many English care home residents feel as if they are in prison amid seemingly endless coronavirus restrictions on their activities and visitors, with a number “losing the will to live”, a committee of MPs has been told by charities. One charity told the MPs that its helpline had been told that someone in a care home felt they would “rather die than carry on living like this”.
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Care home residents facing prison-like conditions and 'losing will to live' since lockdown, MPs hear
5 monthes ago | By The Independent
National charity says it's heard evidence of residents losing weight, speech, and unable to recognise members of their own family
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