Store praised over Alzheimer’s job

The son of a woman suffering from Alzheimer’s has praised Sainsbury’s for keeping his mother in a job as a grocery picker despite her illness.

Doron Salomon, 29, thanked the supermarket for the accommodations they made for his mother – whose identity the family wish to keep pri- vate – at work despite her condition.

This included changing her hours, organising regular welfare meetings with her husband, and even creating a role for her in the store that did not exist. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in late 2013, Mr Salomon’s mother, now 61 years old, had already been working for Sainsbury’s for 18 months when she was made aware of her illness.

Despite a medical exam rendering her unemployable in October 2017, the supermarket chain kept her on for a further five months and she completed her last day on Saturday.