A 98-year-old mom moved into a nursing home to care for her 80-year-old son
Ada Keating decided to move to Moss View Care Home in Liverpool just a year after her son Tom entered.
“You never stop being a mom!” said Ada Keating, a 98-year-old woman who recently moved into a nursing home to care for her 80-year-old son Tom. The caretakers of the center say that the couple is inseparable and, although it is an unusual situation, they say they are delighted and hope to make their stay as special as possible.
Ada Keating decided to move to the Moss View Care Home in Liverpool just a year after her son Tom entered. She did it because her delicate state of health required additional care.
Ada and Tom Keating, originally from Wavertree, have always lived together, according to the Liverpool Echo. Mr. Keating never married. They both love spending time together. They are inseparable.
Before his retirement, Tom was a painter and decorator for He Simm Construction Services. His mother, Ada, was an auxiliary nurse at the old Mill Road Hospital. She and her husband, Harry, had four children.
“I say goodnight to Tom in his room every night and I always go to say good morning to him,” Mrs Keating told an auxiliary nurse.
For his part, Tom is delighted to have his mother near him:
“Everyone is very good here and I am happy to see my mother more time now that she lives here with me“.
And he added: “Sometimes she will tell me: behave yourself!”, But she is very good at taking care of me “.
From this endearing story we can draw several readings. One of them, perhaps the most obvious, is that no matter how many years have passed, a mother will always be a mother. And another, that whenever we can, we value what our mothers do for us and enjoy the little time with them. You never know when or how much we will miss them.
