Calls to improve mental health support for older people during lockdown
It's after a North Lincolnshire Great Grandmother took her own life
Last updated 15th Mar 2021
Calls are being made to improve mental health support for older people during lockdown.
It's after a North Lincolnshire Great Grandmother took her own life.
Hazel Duffield from East Butterwick lived with depression and anxiety for 79 years.
Her family think the isolation and loneliness caused by the pandemic was too much.
Tina Waring, her daughter, said Hazel didn’t see a way out.
"The lockdown had literally taken all her independence away.
"It took her ability to do what she wanted when she wanted.
"If things got on top of her she could jump in the car and go and see my sister, to go and buy something and she had no escape as such.
"The actual lockdown and what have you, I think that was the final thing.
"I think we might have maybe managed to crawl our way through all this if it hadn’t been for that."
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