Dementia patient’s daughter pleads for safer housing before Cork hotel eviction

A Ukrainian family fears for the safety of their elderly mother with dementia ahead of their forced relocation from Youghal

Violeta Pratsovyta with her mother Vera Aksonova (right), children Damir (second from right) and Samira (left), and their dog Dana in the Quality Hotel, Youghal, Co Cork. The family is due to be relocated to Treacys Hotel in Waterford on July 31. Picture: Dan Linehan

Vera Arksonova spends every waking hour consumed by fear that someone is coming to hurt her.

She carries around as many possessions as she can in the belief that she is being watched and will soon be robbed of everything. The 72-year-old resident of the Quality Hotel in Youghal knows that something is coming.