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Jane Sharp, a health care veteran, has worked for 35 years in a role that is usually underestimated, frequently undervalued and perpetually in high demand. She is a licensed nurse’s assistant.Sharp relishes her job at Belknap County Nursing Home. She.
At NH Veterans Home, things get a little wacky
Staff and residents at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton have been dressing up to a different theme on “Wacky Wednesdays,” in this instance from last May, Superhero Day. Courtesy
Published: 5/6/2021 4:28:44 PM
For Regina Dokus, Wacky Wednesday became a mission of mirth, a way to beat isolation and despair and bring in-person cheer to residents of the New Hampshire Veterans Home during the eight months of lockdown during COVID.
When she couldn’t buy a themed outfit, the staff recreation assistant created one herself, gluing, stitching and dressing up as Wonder Woman, a Girl Scout, a cowgirl – whatever matched the theme of the day. She wheeled a cart of catchy, themed snacks to veterans sequestered in their rooms – some of whom had started to lose weight because of loneliness and depression as the coronavirus wore on for months without visits from family or outside entertainers, or the ability to gather with other ve
When visitors can hug again
Published: 4/16/2021 7:41:13 PM
COVID’s lockdowns and health precautions sparked a revolution in social life – especially for nursing home residents.
Teleconferencing by laptop and tablet replaced in-person family visits, which have always been critical to emotional health. After COVID closed nursing homes to the outside world, the closest approximation to getting up close-and-personal with spouses, children and grandchildren was waving and smiling through window glass while chatting by cellphone.
“I felt kind of isolated, but at least we could see them,” said Pauline Bolduc, 93, of Laconia, who has lived at St. Francis Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Laconia for two and a half years. “I missed being able to hug and touch them.”
(The Center Square) â Democrats are turning up the pressure on Republican Gov. Chris Sununu over his administration s handling of a COVID-19 outbreak at a veterans home that sickened nearly 200 and killed 37 elderly residents.
In a letter to Sununuâs office, New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley rips the governor s sham
report on the outbreak and requests documents related to the stateâs response to the outbreak at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton and a report that cleared officials at the long-term care facility of wrongdoing. Despite calls from New Hampshire veterans and civic leaders, you have failed to produce an independent report to examine what caused this outbreak, what could have prevented it, and what could have been done to protect our veterans during the outbreak, Buckley wrote in the March 25 letter.