Anne Duke: Last News

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Loved ones of care home residents will now have the right to visit and care for them as new standards come into place.

Anne Duke, the woman whose heartbreaking battle with care home isolation inspired a Sunday Mail campaign and a change in the law, has died at the age of 63.

care home visiting scandal.Opposition political parties have backed a plea from thousands of families who have been forced to watch loved ones endure nine months of coronavirus lockdown isolation.The nation’s care homes were locked down 300 days ago.Proposed emergency legislation would give nominated relatives or friends the same access rights to care homes as staff, while following stringent infection control procedures.The campaign has been named in honour of 62-year-old Anne Duke – a former care home therapist who has been cut off from her devoted family while battling early onset dementia.A petition launched by her daughter Natasha Hamilton calling for the First Minister to take action has been signed by more than 86,000 people.The