Up until three years ago, my mother could go up and down stairs at my home and the realisation that she couldn’t do this anymore was a real watershed moment. We brought a bed from upstairs and made a room for her downstairs. It isn’t ideal though, as we only have a small downstairs cloakroom, so we’re now looking at adapting downstairs to get a small en suite wet room for her.
I think the whole environment of the hospice movement is about openness, about talking about it, and recognising and coming to terms with it.