My mum's in a care home and they started testing for the first time last week. They were not able to carry out the test on mum as she was physically unable to accept the swab up her nose or even by her holding the swab. Apparently that was the case with a few residents.
Fortunately s;he is not showing any symptoms but much many more residents than usual passed away during the first few weeks of lockdown and before they started testing.
After testing 2 residents tested positive and the home has emailed saying that at this time they are not allowing anyone in accept for medical professionals. I found this a bit ironic as we have not been able to visit since the day before lockdown.
I like several of my fellow relatives at the home and I am sure a lot of people on this forum are out of our minds with worry about the affect of our loved ones being cut off from us.
Has anyone reading been given an idea of how long their particular care home intends to continue with this as not seeing loved ones can also have a devastating affect on their health and well being,
Surely they can't wait until there is a vaccine as that could take a year or longer and many of them won't make it. Has anyone reading been given an indication as when we may be able to support our loved ones again?
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Fortunately s;he is not showing any symptoms but much many more residents than usual passed away during the first few weeks of lockdown and before they started testing.
After testing 2 residents tested positive and the home has emailed saying that at this time they are not allowing anyone in accept for medical professionals. I found this a bit ironic as we have not been able to visit since the day before lockdown.
I like several of my fellow relatives at the home and I am sure a lot of people on this forum are out of our minds with worry about the affect of our loved ones being cut off from us.
Has anyone reading been given an idea of how long their particular care home intends to continue with this as not seeing loved ones can also have a devastating affect on their health and well being,
Surely they can't wait until there is a vaccine as that could take a year or longer and many of them won't make it. Has anyone reading been given an indication as when we may be able to support our loved ones again?
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