1,822 covid deaths over here so far for the year.
My own grandad 93 this January was decimated by the lockdown in nursing homes. He had developed dementia from a series of events that stemmed from an over prescribing of a blood thinner. It was identified 1 year before he was reaching 90 and led to a faint that led to hospitalization at 90, where brain scans revealed he had incurred about a 100 tias from to the hospitalisation process. Then had an unseen fall from bed and broke his hip robbing him of his walk. So hes been in a nursing home ever since against his will.
Since the lockdown hes become vegetative and unrecognisable.
My mum the only one permitted to visit him and only once a week for half an hour after lockdown ended, would know many of the other visitors and the general consensus is that most of the patients/customers would prefer to see their family members and run the risk of death than be protected by being imprisoned within the institution.
The idea I saw expressed in video by an 83 year old woman and a 104 year old woman in the uk was that death is inevitable and that theyd rather live their last few years in contact with loved ones. The 104 year old pleading to see her kids.
No one should die alone and no one should underestimate the role visitors play in keeping standards high in nursing homes. Imo it's a tough job but visitors are the real independent eyes in the nursing home.
Within my mums first visit she had noticed that when awake my grandad was scratching profusely, the nursing home hadn't noticed it and it became apparent that their had been a scabies outbreak going untreated.
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