Alzheimer’s and dementia, McDermott said she soon realized she needed help.“I think there was a bit of denial and just hoping that it would stay the same.
But, you know, conditions did get worse … it was becoming unsafe. So we had to make the decision that I swore I would never, ever do and put her into long-term care,” she recalled.
Coronavirus: Hospitals to temporarily manage 2 Ontario long-term care homes McDermott visited her mother at River Glen Haven (RGH) in Sutton, Ont., daily and cried, she said, each time she left.“It was definitely worse than the day that she passed, unfortunately, handing her over, handing her care over to basically what looked like inside as an institution was the hardest thing that I ever had to do in my.