Visits to the vulnerable

sir – I am 76 and the sole carer for my 97-year-old mother, who lives alone in a one-bedroom flat. She manages well, but needs help washing her hair, cutting her nails and preparing food.

It must be better to go on travelling eight miles three times a week to help her rather than to ask staff in the care system to take on an extra person. They visit many patients, but I keep my mother safe by only visiting her.

Ann Tomline

Oxford

sir – My wife’s doctor told her to self-isolate. She and I are in our late seventies, but are not on a government list, and find it impossible to get a delivery slot. Sainsbury’s, with whom we have shopped for seven years, will not let me past its first website page. We had one delivery from Tesco, but cannot get another for three weeks.

Yet, I see neighbours of working age get deliveries more than once a week from several providers. I guess we are just not tech-savvy enough to compete in the Wild West of deliveries.

Nick Davies

Norton, Kent sir – I am in self-isolation and cannot get food delivered from a supermarket. But it is offering to deliver pet food, including wild-bird feed, regularly.

Ann Acres

Caversham, Berkshire