I am a new member. I haven't had a chance to go through all questions posed on this forum so apologies if I am repeating.
Our family like many others is facing the same issue of having mum in isolation in a nursing home. She used to have at least 3-4 visits a day from friends and family. Over the last 4 months we managed to help her gain mobility from being on a palliative path after hip surgery. Her cultural background is Indian and does not really communicate too well in English. She has dementia too. We (family) think that by the end of the lockdown her mental and physical state will deteriorate further without our contact.
My question is that given the lockdown is going to in place for a few weeks/months and that people in these forums seem to understand more than others the importance of physical contact, is there a legal avenue that can be used to challenge the lockdown? I can see practical steps like checking temperature of visitors, limiting the number of daily visits to say at most 1, keeping to the residents rooms whilst visiting ?
We need the combined brains of the legal professionals so that some sort of challenge can be conceived. Hope some of you have suggestions ! I tried asking solicitors but they generally were sympathetic to the govt/carehome point of view.
Yep and we try the phone/video call avenue but mostly not much success because mum is really hard of hearing even with earphones.
Thanks
Our family like many others is facing the same issue of having mum in isolation in a nursing home. She used to have at least 3-4 visits a day from friends and family. Over the last 4 months we managed to help her gain mobility from being on a palliative path after hip surgery. Her cultural background is Indian and does not really communicate too well in English. She has dementia too. We (family) think that by the end of the lockdown her mental and physical state will deteriorate further without our contact.
My question is that given the lockdown is going to in place for a few weeks/months and that people in these forums seem to understand more than others the importance of physical contact, is there a legal avenue that can be used to challenge the lockdown? I can see practical steps like checking temperature of visitors, limiting the number of daily visits to say at most 1, keeping to the residents rooms whilst visiting ?
We need the combined brains of the legal professionals so that some sort of challenge can be conceived. Hope some of you have suggestions ! I tried asking solicitors but they generally were sympathetic to the govt/carehome point of view.
Yep and we try the phone/video call avenue but mostly not much success because mum is really hard of hearing even with earphones.
Thanks