Relatives demand greater access to nursing homes amid vaccine

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Before the coronavirus pandemic, Marcella Goheen would visit her husband at a nursing home every day. As an essential care visitor, she would spend about 40 hours a week conducting neurotherapy and other assisted living tasks for her husband, who suffers from a neurodegenerative disability.

But as COVID-19 began to sweep through the halls of long-term care facilities across the nation, Goheen, along with thousands of family members of long-term care residents, was forced to accept strict visitor bans put in place to prevent the spread of the deadly virus.

Now, as vaccinations for the coronavirus are underway, families and eldercare advocates are wondering when they will be able to return -- and are worried about the impact of extended isolation.

"He needs me," Goheen said of her husband. "My daily visits included enabling him to move every 15 minutes because he cannot initiate the first step. The facility doesn't have the staffing to provide him with the care he requires, and seeing him through a screen is not enough."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/relatives-demand-greater-access-to-nursing-homes-amid-vaccine/ar-BB1dwDyi?li=BBnb7Kz

[genxlib]

1. I am a lot more open to this discussion

Than ones that include more frivolous desires like opening bars.

I feel terrible for people like this. It has made a tragic situation even worse.

[SoCalNative]

2. Some are already allowing this

My neighbor was recently moved into hospice care in the facility where she has been staying and they are now allowing her visitors, one at a time.