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My mother’s care home was an ‘island of strangers’
It’s where she was looked after and loved by workers who don’t deserve Starmer’s ugly condemnation, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THE STRANGEWRS THAT CARE: Residents and staff of Peartree Care Home are visited by Minister for Social Care Helen Whately. Pic: Lauren Hurley/DHSC/flickr/CC
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FOR THE last three years of her life, my mother lived on an island of strangers. Those “strangers” nursed her, fed her, bathed her, played cards with her, took her to physical therapy and out into the garden and above all they loved her as if she was their own mother.
When she died, three of those “strangers” came to her funeral and they belonged there, just as much as her friends and family members.
Those women — from Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, the Philippines — were indeed strangers to my mother when she first moved into the south-west London care home that kept her warm, safe and cared for in her last years as dementia gradually took hold.
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