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Covid-19: Alzheimer’s Society calls for immediate action to protect care home residents

The Alzheimer’s Society has called for the Government to take immediate steps  to support care home residents and their families through the pandemic.

The Alzheimer’s Society has called for the Government to take immediate steps  to support care home residents and their families through the pandemic after thirteen deaths were recorded in a week in the Burlington Court care home in Glasgow. The charity says that yet again, social care and those who desperately need it have fallen to the bottom of the pile. At present, care home residents are being cut off from their families, denied access to hospital treatment, and routinely encouraged to sign Do Not Resuscitate orders. We are calling on Government to implement measures that will put an end to the lack

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