Loose Women star Coleen Nolan has opened up about the ‘dangerous’ decision she and her family had to make for her mum Maureen, who was battling Alzheimer’s
Loose Women presenter Coleen Nolan has revealed she continues to feel “guilty” about placing her mother into a care facility, despite it becoming too “dangerous” to care for her at home.
Coleen and her family faced the difficult choice to move Maureen into a care home as she struggled with Alzheimer’s.
This prompted the family to make the “heartbreaking” choice to relocate Maureen into a nursing facility where she could receive round-the-clock care.
Coleen reveals that Maureen, who passed away in 2008, was “barely recognisable” in her final days.
Speaking on the Loose Women: Just Between Us podcast, Coleen, 60, described how the family allowed Maureen to select her own nursing facility, reports the Mirror.
This followed a podcast listener sharing their struggle with whether to place their father into care.
Coleen explained: “We knew she had to go into a home because she was getting to the point where it was dangerous on her own, and with us, we weren’t trained and it was 24/7 and we all worked. We did this thing where you can choose it.
“In actual fact, the one I would have chosen for her, she hated. It was brand new, it was like a five-star hotel, it was this, that and the other and her own bathroom, it was modern and beautiful and she went, ‘Well I’m not staying here’.
“She hated it. The one she picked, when we walked in I went, ‘She won’t like this one’. [And she said] ‘I like this one, It’s homely’.”
However, the star admits she still feels “guilty” about the decision. Speaking to her fellow Loose Women co-star Charlene White, she confessed: “I hate the guilt.”
In 2008, Coleen revealed her mum’s condition to the Mirror, stating: “Her mind has deteriorated so much that she is barely recognisable as the woman I grew up adoring. I can’t stand to see her like this, she has no quality of life.”
Dublin-born Maureen was trained as a soprano at the Royal Irish Academy and had her own singing career.
She developed a music act that saw all 10 members of the Nolan family performing on stage together.
Her five oldest daughters – Bernie, Denise, Linda, Anne, Maureen, and Coleen – formed The Nolans in the 1970s. They enjoyed a number of hit singles including I’m in the Mood for Dancing, Gotta Pull Myself Together, Who’s Gonna Rock You, Attention to Me, and Chemistry.
Coleen shared that her mum found peace listening to music towards the end of her life. Speaking to the BBC in March, she said: “We did try music and talking to her.
“I know there would be times when she’d be very quiet and just watch a video or a musical and she seemed at peace doing that.”
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