Hi Jan L, Are you sure carers in the home aren't an option? We started with one a few weeks before the great lockdown and she still comes. We are all fine even in the hot spot, London, with careful hand washing. Distancing is not an option as my husband doesn't understand the need
Hello, thank you for your reply and your reassurance, I was on the brink of trying to get Carers in or someone to sit with my Husband when all these problems started with Covid-19. We were unable to do very much through the winter, apart from shop once a week, and with his deteriorating mobility I can't take him out with me very far, but I felt that there were probably more needy cases than me, as I am still reasonable well and fit for someone in their 70's, especially those living alone with no one to support them. I feel very guilty when they show these people with adult children with all sorts of problems, they are having to care for without the respite and carers they are used to.
I am very nervous about letting people into the house with this virus about, but I would be interested to know how the Carers work with you. Our lives here seem so erratic, he doesn't want to get up in a morning won't co-operate going to the toilet, so I just let things happen as and when I can get it done without confrontation, fortunately he isn't violent, but he is unable to speak and can't find his way around the house to go to the toilet or what he has to do when I get him there. I need to sit by him to make him drink and if I leave the table for anything when we are eating, he stops eating too. Without me by his side he is unable to function.
Stay safe and well.
Jan L