Helen Gluckman poses with a picture of her father Jan, who died of COVID-19 in a Swedish nursing home in April, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Stockholm, Sweden November 27, 2020. REUTERS/Anna Ringstrom
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - In April, a nurse at a Stockholm home for the elderly told Helen Gluckman that her 83-year-old father would likely not live for long. He had been stricken by COVID-19 and the home recommended putting him on end-of-life care, she said.
Gluckman, 55, said she agreed because she did not want him to suffer pain. Her father, Jan Gluckman, who suffered from dementia, was put on morphine, according to his medical records seen by Reuters. He died a week later.
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