Imagine then, oh horror of horrors … the car crash of shame!

As a single parent of four mum certainly had a lot on her plate and very little support it being the late 1970s and all. In fact, she was spurned by neighbours, supposed friends and some family for not staying committed to a loveless marriage and...

I’d just finished visiting mum after a particularly difficult family meeting which was mediated by a care lead of mum’s residential home.

The strung out and overworked carers around him and the duty nurse Steve were all on high alert.

Doris sits in her wheelchair by the edge of the dining tables, a busy thoroughfare, grasping at people as they walk by her, each one swerving, avoiding her grabbing hands. Each one another painful rejection.