98-year-old Ada Keating decided to join her 80-year-old son Tom at Moss View care home in Huyton, Liverpool, where he moved in 2016. Ada, a mother, felt her son needed more care and support.

Tom never married, so the two of them were inseparable. They played games together or watched Emmerdale.

Ada said: “I say goodnight to Tom every night in his room and then I go and say ‘good morning’ to him. I say I’m going downstairs for breakfast.

When I go out to get my hair cut he waits for me to say when he’ll be back. When I come back he comes to me with his arms open and gives me a big hug.”

Tom said: “Everyone here is nice, I’m so happy to see my mum more when she lives here. She looks after me very well, sometimes she says ‘Watch yourself’.”

Ada has four children – Tom, Barbara, Margi and Janet (who died aged 13).

Before retiring, Tom was a painter and decorator and Ada was a nurse at Mill Road Hospital.

Ada’s granddaughter Debi and other family members regularly visit the care home at Page Moss Lane and say they are happy that Ada and Tom can live together. Debi said: “Nothing can separate them, we are very reassured that they can be cared for 24/7.

The care home manager, Philip Daniels, said it was rare to see a mother and child in the same care home. “We want their time together to be as special as possible. Nothing can separate them,” he said.