Many families are voicing disagreement with policies at retirement homes that are restricting visits to people living in them. These care organizations remain concerned about the spread of COVID-19.
COVID forces families to rethink nursing home care
By Reed Abelson New York Times,Updated May 9, 2021, 4:15 a.m.
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Diane Nixon, 86, in her efficiency apartment in her daughter Heidi Dolanâs house in Oakmont, Pa., on April 20, 2021. Even with vaccines, many older people and their relatives are weighing how to manage at-home care for those who can no longer live independently.Kristian Thacker/NYT
At 86, Diane Nixon, living in an apartment at the back of a daughterâs house, no longer drives and has trouble getting around.
When her health worsened last year before the coronavirus pandemic, she and all four of her daughters talked about whether a nursing home would be the next step. She worried that she had become a burden to her children.
Covid Forces Families to Rethink Nursing Home Care
Even with vaccines, many older people and their relatives are weighing how to manage at-home care for those who can no longer live independently.
Diane Nixon, 86, lives in an efficiency apartment in her daughter Heidi Dolan’s house in suburban Pittsburgh.Credit.Kristian Thacker for The New York Times
Published May 6, 2021Updated May 8, 2021
At 86, Diane Nixon, living in an apartment at the back of a daughter’s house, no longer drives and has trouble getting around.
When her health worsened last year before the coronavirus pandemic, she and all four of her daughters talked about whether a nursing home would be the next step. She worried that she had become a burden to her children.
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Office Visit: Safe visitation critical to care
David Holden
Since the onset of the pandemic, there have been many horrible after-effects. Most would agree, one of the worst was how residents of long-term care facilities suffered unmercifully without loved ones by their side.
COVID-19 was unforgiving toward our state’s most vulnerable population. Residents of long-term care facilities found themselves locked in with nothing but a pane of glass casting a window to the world, friends and family members.
On the front end of the pandemic, “no-visitor” policies were instituted to mitigate spread and save lives, but no one could forecast the damage it would expel on the mental health of everyone involved.