Happy New Year everyone.
My mum has a diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment (2019) and her condition has deteriorated considerably in 2020, not helped at all by the isolation of lockdown. She has been referred back to the Memory Assessment Clinic and is waiting for an appointment. She is able to live independently, albeit with increasing levels of support, but her short term memory is very poor.
Unfortunately, one of her children (my sister) is terminally ill and is not expected to survive more than a few days.
My dilemma is, should she be told? We are in Tier 4, so visiting is restricted to one relative (and my mum could not go on her own), I am shielding until 1 Feb (at least) so, according to the advice, should stay at home and therefore could not provide comfort for her, hug her etc etc or stay at her house overnight. My instinct is that she has the right to know, but my head is telling me otherwise.
I'd be very grateful for any advice on how to tackle this.
Many thanks.
My mum has a diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment (2019) and her condition has deteriorated considerably in 2020, not helped at all by the isolation of lockdown. She has been referred back to the Memory Assessment Clinic and is waiting for an appointment. She is able to live independently, albeit with increasing levels of support, but her short term memory is very poor.
Unfortunately, one of her children (my sister) is terminally ill and is not expected to survive more than a few days.
My dilemma is, should she be told? We are in Tier 4, so visiting is restricted to one relative (and my mum could not go on her own), I am shielding until 1 Feb (at least) so, according to the advice, should stay at home and therefore could not provide comfort for her, hug her etc etc or stay at her house overnight. My instinct is that she has the right to know, but my head is telling me otherwise.
I'd be very grateful for any advice on how to tackle this.
Many thanks.