Atkins’ mother, Norma, died on 30 August in hospital, and her son said since her death the home had acted “as if she never existed”. Atkins said information from the home about his 92-year-old mother had been lacking throughout the ordeal. When Norma was transferred to hospital, Atkins was told by the home his mother had been taken to the Epworth Hospital in Brighton, but when he called the hospital she was not there. “The next time I saw her in the hospital, I looked at her and thought, ‘That doesn’t look anything like my mother’,” Atkins said. There have been 577 aged care deaths related to Covid-19 since the pandemic began, 546 of them in Victoria.

Source: The Guardian September 11, 2020 19:52 UTC