Family struggles to move mother across country to B.C. care home

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Kelowna residents Darla Brown and Nikki Drinkwalter fear their mother’s mental health is getting worse by the day.

The 71-year-old, who is blind and partially paralyzed, is on the other side of the country, in Crapaud, P.E.I., where she lives alone in a subsidized care home following the recent death of her husband.

“She’s depressed and she’s lonely,” said Drinkwalter. “A lot of our [phone] conversations are very quiet, she doesn’t have a lot to talk about. She’s depressed, and she doesn’t want to be where she’s at.”

“She hasn’t had visitors,” Brown added. “It’s very unfortunate.”

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Brown and Drinkwalter have been trying to move their

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