Grandfather is 90 and apart from some mobility issues is fit and well.
Lockdown has not been too much of an issue as we’ve been able to drop shopping outside his home and he can cook for himself.
The past week or two though his mental health has started to take a nosedive and the isolation is really getting to him. He needs human company. We’ve been and sat in the garden with him but he gets cold and keeps on at us to go in the house and sit well apart (he has a large lounge).
He’s desperate to go for a run in the car, to come and stay at my home for the day and to go to the supermarket. It’s all he fixates on now, some days he’s very down about it.
I think I’d have caved by now if it weren’t for the fact DH and DS still go out to work so the are a route of transmission into my house.
GF is now past caring and thinks it’ll be fine - says that there’s no point to life if he can’t ever leave the house again.
WWYD? Is it worth the risk to try and keep his spirits up? Trouble is he’ll push and push until one of us give in and then he’ll push the boundaries further so he’s completely out of lockdown (I know what he’s like).
Anyone else thrown In the towel with elderly persistent relatives?
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Would you visit your 90 year old grandfather?
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Pinkshoe · 14/06/2020 16:43
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