Can anyone please help me make sense of the new lockdown rules?
Mother-in-law is full time carer to Father-in-law with mid-stage Alzheimer's. She has very little relief as she struggled to get him to accept visiting carers and had only just started introducing this before the first lockdown. We (the only family nearby) normally visit, provide respite/relief and support.
We can't bubble up because we are a 2 parent family with children and they are counted as 2 adults, although he no longer has capacity as an 'adult' and she has to be on duty constantly.
As I understand, we now won't be able to visit the house or garden at all. She will not be able to meet up with anyone e.g. in a park, because she can't leave him alone and he would have to go too, which would break the rule of only one individual from each household.
I can see the exceptions (reasons to go out) include caring for someone. Would this cover myself or my husband visiting to support them? E.g. watching him or sitting with him by the TV in order to let her get things done around the house? I am so aware that she has no time to herself and no relief. The rules recognise the impact on people who live alone and single parents with children, but I feel a carer who lives with their spouse with fairly well advanced Alzheimer's is in an equally difficult and isolated situation but prevented unfairly from forming a bubble.
Anyone able to cast light on what I am/am not allowed to do please?
Mother-in-law is full time carer to Father-in-law with mid-stage Alzheimer's. She has very little relief as she struggled to get him to accept visiting carers and had only just started introducing this before the first lockdown. We (the only family nearby) normally visit, provide respite/relief and support.
We can't bubble up because we are a 2 parent family with children and they are counted as 2 adults, although he no longer has capacity as an 'adult' and she has to be on duty constantly.
As I understand, we now won't be able to visit the house or garden at all. She will not be able to meet up with anyone e.g. in a park, because she can't leave him alone and he would have to go too, which would break the rule of only one individual from each household.
I can see the exceptions (reasons to go out) include caring for someone. Would this cover myself or my husband visiting to support them? E.g. watching him or sitting with him by the TV in order to let her get things done around the house? I am so aware that she has no time to herself and no relief. The rules recognise the impact on people who live alone and single parents with children, but I feel a carer who lives with their spouse with fairly well advanced Alzheimer's is in an equally difficult and isolated situation but prevented unfairly from forming a bubble.
Anyone able to cast light on what I am/am not allowed to do please?