Just cruel at this point : Nursing homes push to reopen for visits, hugs after COVID-19 vaccine Letitia Stein, USA TODAY
A Missouri man worried about his mother’s weight loss after she spent a year in a nursing home under COVID-19 lockdown without his daily peanut butter shakes.
In Florida, a devoted husband celebrated his final wedding anniversary on opposite sides of his wife’s nursing home window.
A woman in the Bronx, New York, blamed her mild heart attack on stressful months of separation from her mother.
“I couldn’t hug her for Mother’s Day, for the whole year,” Lillian Marrero said.
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Texas winter storm exposes gaps in senior living oversight
When the big, red and extremely loud fire alarm went off in Maria Skladzien s apartment, the 74-year-old ventured into the hallway with fellow residents of her Houston-area senior living community. The brutal winter storm that swept through Texas had knocked out power, which, in turn, disrupted water to the four-story building. The blaring alarms raised fears of fire.
The building s elevators were unusable without power. Dependent on her wheelchair, Skladzien went back inside her second-floor apartment. She watched as residents gathered in the subfreezing temperatures outside, wondering if she would have to throw herself out the window to survive.
The Daily Yonder Industry Lobbying Left Nursing Homes Vulnerable in Pandemic Lax regulations and minimal enforcement left the nursing homes exposed to dangers of highly transmissible diseases long before the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic hit.
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Nursing home employee Ashley Ford at her home in DeMotte, Indiana. (Photo by John J. Watkins for The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting)
Even before Covid-19, aides caring for elderly and disabled people in nursing homes often were overworked and underpaid, doing everything from changing linens to helping residents eat to physically rotating them to prevent bed sores.
Ashley Ford often was one of four aides for as many as 42 residents at the Indiana nursing home where she’s worked since early 2019. She sometimes skipped breaks when work got busy so she wouldn’t leave patients waiting.