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A campaign aiming to ease visitor restrictions in Nursing homes

A year of hardship has been endured by a loving couple, who have been together 62 years an...

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13.59 15 Dec 2020


A campaign aiming to ease visitor restrictions in Nursing homes


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13.59 15 Dec 2020


A year of hardship has been endured by a loving couple, who have been together 62 years and have seen each other just once in the past nine months, to briefly hold hands in an ambulance after both suffering life-changing injuries.

Now the family of Dolores and Michael Harrison have joined a campaign aiming to ease visitor restrictions in Nursing homes for people who are have been left particularly isolated due to illness or old age, their daughter Fiona joins me on the line, Fiona tell me about your Mum and Dad,

Fiona Harrison and Majella Beatty from care champions joined Andrea on the show.

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