[The Guardian] 'Dad stood at Mum's window every night for a year': care home visitors – a photo essay

'Dad stood at Mum's window every night for a year': care home visitors – a photo essay

Photographer Christopher Bethell documents the residents of Green Gables care home, who this week have finally been allowed to have a family visitor to see them

For the first time since the beginning of England’s first national lockdown, I saw my mum sit down next to my gran’s bed to hold her hand and comfort her. It was 8 March, the first day of regulations being loosened to let children back into schools and allow care home residents to be visited by their loved ones. The rules permit only one visitor, so I watched through her window.

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