Granddaughter of Patrick Barrett faced heartbreak due to serious failings by a lawyer, preventing her from accessing funds to pay nursing home bills. Patrick Barrett, who suffered from dementia, owed up to €19,000 in fees, but compassion from nursing home operators allowed him to stay despite financial struggles.
Cruising with my grandparents on a massive ship meant prioritizing their needs, slowing down, and utilizing accessibility services to improve our overall experience.
It would have been nice to have more downtime in our schedule, too. I underestimated how exhausting the itinerary would be for my grandma.
"Floors covered in feces, soaked in urine, the floors were actually spongy. The smell from urine was very overwhelming to say the least. One of the investigators ran out vomiting from the smell."
"We were out there kind of to celebrate [that] we can still hike and we were enjoying the wildflowers and everything, and I don't know, at about three and a half miles, Elaine just took off like an energizer bunny, which is pretty common," Durgin tells ABC 7.
According to a freedom of information request by the Liberal Democrats, some patients went 10 days before getting a space on a ward, demonstrating extreme delays in hospital admissions.