A 100-year-old woman is being removed from a care home after her family could no longer bear to see her “fade away”.

Great-granddaughter makes plea for change over abandoned residents

- John Ferguson

Doreen Tilly’s great-granddaughter, Sonia Dixon, said she had no other option but to take her out of the facility, which has been in lockdown for 10 months.

Sonia, 37, launched a furious attack on the Scottish Government’s “complete and utter failure” to end the elderly’s suffering during the Covid-19 outbreak.

She told how Doreen was “full of life” when she celebrated her 100th birthday at the beginning of the pandemic but is now on anti-depressants and wants her life to be over.

The former pub manager is scheduled to leave the care home in Glenrotheson February 1 after living there for six years.

Business studies student Sonia is now customising her home in the fife town in preparation for Doreen coming to stay with her.

And she says the treatment of care home residents during the pandemic has made her doubt if she will vote for the Nationalists in May’s Holyrood elections.

Sonia said: “I’ve always voted for the SNP because I thought they were brave enough to do things differently in Scotland.

“But this has really opened my eyes and made me think about who I want to vote for at the next election. They have continually failed to come up with anything different and prove they are capable of thinking for themselves or even caring.