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• Coronavirus has deepened prejudice against older people | John Harris

  26-04-2020 17:23
  
  We should worry about generational divisions getting even worse – but it is not too late to shift attitudes toward our eldersCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLast week, I spoke to a man called Richard Kempner about the recent death of his mother, Sheila. It was a difficult and impossibly moving conversation, made all the more affecting by the fact that the previous night he had forwarded me photographs and videos of her that went back nearly 30 years.On Eas
  
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• Margot Garlick obituary

  26-04-2020 13:45
  
  My mother, Margot Garlick, who has died aged 88, enjoyed a long and successful career in social services, mostly working for Croydon council. She rose to be a team manager in Purley and then area officer for Surrey county council in the New Addington area of Croydon – a challenging place to work due to the large number of families experiencing difficulties.To her work colleagues she was a warm and caring manager, admired and respected for her dedication to work but also for the attention s
  
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• Has your care home been badly affected by coronavirus?

  26-04-2020 10:55
  
  We’d like to hear from staff and families of residents in UK care homes and nursing homes that have been hardest hit by the virus. Share your experiencesSome UK care homes have been very badly affected by Covid-19 and we’d like to hear from managers and workers about how they’re dealing with the situation. What are conditions like for staff and residents, how are you coping?We’d also like families to get in touch whose relatives are living in homes that are hardest hit by
  
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