An 89-year-old man has started protesting a Grimsby care home, claiming that they are not allowing him to meet his wife and he has been banned from seeing his wife there.
An OAP who hasn’t spent a day apart from his wife of 70 years has started a one-man protest after being ‘banned from seeing her’.
Dennis Daniels began picketing the Anchorage Care Home in Grimsby on Tuesday, saying that the manager of the home had stopped him from visiting wife Dorine, as he had been too loud and disruptive.
The 89-year-old claims he has been having issues at the care home, which specializes in enhanced dementia care, for the past few months, involving another resident’s behavior.
Mr. Daniels said things came to a head on Monday night after the resident began banging on Dorine’s door and shouting at her.
He shouted for someone to come and help them, but nobody arrived for “quite a few minutes”, he told.
He claims that after this incident took place, the manager of the home demanded that he leave.
Mr. Daniels, who has seen her Dorine “every single day of their marriage”, said that he interpreted the reprimand from the manager as him being banned from seeing her.
He said: “I have decided to start a picket outside the Anchorage Care Home because they are not allowing me to see my wife.
“On Monday night, the manager told me four times that I must ‘leave her home’ as I was being noisy, loud, temperamental and abusive when I was really trying to get some help and support for my wife.
“There have been issues with one resident at the home for months, and while I understand that he is unwell and is in the best place to get help, I think the manager needs to take some action because I am scared for my safety and that of my wife.”
Mr. Daniels sat in his wheelchair outside the care home, on Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, where he held a sign up to passing motorists calling for their support.
Despite his current issues with the Anchorage Care Home, which is currently the only one in North East Lincolnshire rated as outstanding by the CQC, Mr. Daniels said his wife has been very happy there, and that the main body of the staff is “tremendous and do a brilliant job.”
“Mr. Daniels is a regular visitor to the home, usually seeing his wife daily. They have a loving relationship, which we respect.
“We’re a little surprised by his recent actions. Our dedicated staff is always monitoring the wellbeing and safeguarding of residents.
“We are trying to engage with Mr. Daniels and have called in the support of local Social Services to reach an amicable solution.”
A spokesman for Hull-based Hica Group, which operates the Anchorage, said: “We recognize the complex and sensitive issues around this particular situation with Mr. Daniels and his wife, a long-time resident at the Anchorage. It is not a straightforward situation.