It's the elderly I worry about most. Their social circles at churches and card games, coffee houses etc.... all vanish. And they are alone. Hopefully we can help them and open the country soon to activities they can handle also
I have a sister and a friend in elder apartments. It’s like they are in jail, except criminals have privileges. It’s horrible! My husband any I are both retired. We walk from 2-3 miles a day and we have gone shopping more in the last 4 weeks and spent more money — than in the previous 4 months. I am usually a homebody — but not when any government tells me I have to be.
That's what we've been doing, too. Bro Covfefe goes to the store everyday, even if it's just to buy bread.
He's been told by the police to go home and not come out to "buy gum" and the 2 of us have been given the stink eye for shopping together.
Our elderly neighbors are in 2 groups. Some stay inside and let their children deal with everything (they're fortunate). Others fit in a walk by taking the long way to the store.
There are plenty who live alone and are denied their social outlets; church, cards, coffee.
Your Son guards DJT?!? Wow, I'd be honored to take bullets for him. I see purpose in him of a man that is NOT afraid to die doing the right thing in the service of his Country. You've got to be so proud! I trust you know assassination attempts have been made. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if DJT has been hit, and unlike Reagan didn't say anything publicly; that would be wise IMHO. The fact that I pray frequently for the physical safety of DJT means that has extended to your Son, too. Guardian Angels. Warring Angels. And everything else at the disposal of the Almighty.
I lost my Mom last August. She was 86. Her life had been mostly suffering for 15 years at least. She met a merciful end, died peacefully in her sleep at home.
I trust you know that your Mom being on a ventilator last year is not necessarily as damaging as what normally happens when a CCPvirus patient needs a vent? Normally it's ok, a good therapy. Especially if you can avoid an infection.
I'm not going to see my beloved grandchildren until this is all over. If I had my way I would take my chances. It's not really living without your family.
High levels of stress from the campaign is accelerating his cognitive decline. The quarantine means he's not traveling as much, so that might be helping him somewhat for now.
I'm sorry but I have no mercy for creepy Joe or the DNC. I'm the most compassionate and forgiving person you'd ever want to meet, but this is extreme. Shampeachment was based on DJT supposedly being "afraid" to campaign against Biden. Don't let them forget that.
40 years ago Biden was an imbecile. The moral lapse DNC had to stoop to with shampeachment deserves only to be ruthlessly exposed. And something approaching half the Nation has only dug in their heels on the topic.
Biden needs to be drug around like weekend at Bernie's, and no matter how bad he gets we need to confront them with these facts. They picked this fight, they don't get to cry Uncle. We make them die on this hill, which includes willful destruction of everything we've ever held dear. Everything anyone in the US has ever fought for.
Nursing homes are already so isolating, I have worked for 3 of them. Now they are shut out even more and they have to sit and watch the relentless fear mongering on the news and media 24/7. It's horrible. I feel so bad for them.
I also work and have worked in nursing homes. Yes, they are already very isolated and the lucky ones that have family to visit them really looked forward to those visits. Some of the very fortunate had adult children and grandchildren who came every day. My heart breaks for them and their families right now.
My mom passed last year but had progressed through various care levels in the years prior. Fortunately I had good facilities on my typical way to work so it was easy to pop in frequently. Her Alzheimer disease made her a particular challenge for her caregivers as she could get suddenly violent if she thought she was being "assaulted" for example during a diaper change.
Folks who haven't had the experience don't recognize how patient, caring, and selfless workers in care homes are. Preserving the dignity of elderly people who find themselves in a very undignified reduced station is a special skill and I saw a lot of it through my mom's care.
My faith leads me to expect that you have all won great accolade in heaven for the selfless work you do. And on behalf of all the residents who are not capable of expressing their thanks - thank you!
Grandma is with dementia and in a nursing home. Total lockdown with no one except staff allowed in. Worried she won’t remember family when/if they’re going to allow visitors again.
So sorry. My mother suffered from dementia for many years. No words are sufficient. That is a valid concern about the change in routine. My heart goes out to you! (hug)
My mother in law, too. She was totally dependent on us for her last 2 years. We took her out of the nursing home and minded her at home. The number of trips and falls she took went down dramtically.
The Army in Spain found a care home abandoned. It was just before the shit really hit the fan there. So what I've found is once that happens for some reason news stops being reported on in the country.
Anyway.
They found a care home with no staff working at it. They had just left it and let the old people inside die. Think there was an outbreak of a couple of residents and then the workers left. Some died of the virus and some died of starvation.
It's a MASSIVE scandal in the western world. Some of the stories coming out are pretty bad.
I don't like to go into theories too much in the subject as its a very real subject for a lot of people. But if I was trying to spread a virus I would target care homes. Its something I thought about 2 months ago as a method for Trump haters to target America. Just a thought.
Our elders are our greatest treasures. Their collective wisdom gathered in their lifetimes is priceless. The anecdote from Spain is unfathomably tragic.
Hug your parents if you still have them! Just wash your hands and face first!
Aside from the scandal in the residencía, the lockdown order has totally disrupted Spanish culture.
Spanish social life takes place outside of the home. They have social and athletic clubs, neighborhood bars, church. All that has been taken from them.
They applaud for health care workers from their balconies at 8pm and beat pots and pans in protest at 9pm.
The children haven't been outside for 40 days. On Monday, they're supppsed to be allowed out for a kilometer walk as long as a parent is with them. But the rest of us can go hang until the government decides we can take a walk.
My wife is a physical therapist at a nursing home. The sad reality is that they're being treated as a repository for elderly patients from hospitals that are not symptomatic. But it turns out, some of these patients actually have the Chynese Virus. So the numbers are spreading in these nursing homes. It's not from the visitors, but in the stupid policies by the hospitals/government, at least here in Commiefornia.
You can't convince me that's not deliberate. More damning evidence that we need to physically remove our Governors from Office and make them stand trial for mass murder.
One of her patients passed away of a massive heart attack. This woman was in her 90s and they moved a newly admitted patient to share a room with her who turned out positive for the Chinese Virus. When her patient found out about her roommate's situation, my wife suspects that she got extremely anxious and nervous (she's a nervous wreck to begin with) and that's what caused the heart attack.
It's sad that cases like this, together with suicides due to depression, are not being taken into consideration and reported on. They are direct results of bad policies and decisions by so called officials.
He turned to Howard Zucker, the state health commissioner, who confirmed the policy, saying “if you are positive, you should be admitted back to a nursing home. The necessary precautions will be taken to protect the other residents there.”
So Governor Dumbass says that its too dangerous to keep criminals in prison, cause they might get sick, and then tells facilities where the people most vulnerable to this are that they have to take infected people back in? Its official, then. The man is EVIL.
I work in a nursing home and let me just say: it is infuriating and heartbreaking at the same time. Our residents have been stuck in their rooms for about a month now, no visitors, and they aren't even allowed to go out on our front porch with a mask while practising social distancing. They are all restless and I swear getting cabin fever. Several of my bed bound residents who had family coming 3 times a day are losing their hair! But they all have windows and their loved ones come to them, it's just not the same. It is truly frustrating because there is nothing I can do personally to fix it other than let them use my phone.
Amen, brotha. Nursing homes don't get treated the same way as hospitals do in terms of equipment, funding, etc. My wife's facility does not have enough masks for everyone still because those have been stockpiled for hospitals and emergency responders.
So I do my bit. Whatever wife wants for dinner, hubby makes happen. Wife wants steak? Medium rare, no problem.
It's so sad how all those people are being treated. Many are close to dying. I don't think either of my two deceased grandparents lasted more than two months after they made the nursing home. I remember visiting my grandfather there at Christmas and even though he was quite out of it you could tell he knew everyone was there and was so glad they had all come to see him.
I saw a guy online say how his 82 year old neighbor made him some chocolate fudge because she was happy he wasn't afraid to treat her normal and give her a hug. Of course met with comments of how he was going to give her a disease. These people's feelings on the matter are thrown out even more dismissively and worse than ours that want the lockdown over.
Hey friends, Assistant Director of a Retirement Community here. We all hate it too. Heart breaking to watch them wave through windows. We want our people to be safe. Since there is no manual for this crazy time line, we just try to err on the side of caution. The pros and cons of overreacting seem safer than the pros and cons of underreacting. (Our residents can come and go still, but we're restricting visitors and not allowing gathering.) Trust me, we want to be doing fun things, not wasting time from end years. Have some grace for those of us that still show up to work with elder pedes. This has been a rough road to navigate.
Appreciate that. We don't know if we're right or wrong, but we're trying our hardest. I also appreciate you making this post. I've been wanting to get some of this off my chest lol.
It's frustrating knowing there are likely so many people who would like to help but who are not allowed- at precisely the time many people also are home from work.
It would be glorious to use volunteers in some capacity, I wouldn't have to work 7 straight days last week lol. But the risk (or perceived risk) of the virus coming into the building (on someone who doesn't need to be there) is what keeps us awake a night. It's already a huge leap of faith trusting our coworkers to sit still when they're off work.
I’m currently working in a nursing home for a large company and the lockdown measures they’re making us take are insane. It started out as “just take precautions” but that quickly turned into no visitors unless someone is actively dying. That then turned into “every employee wears masks and goggles.” That turned into lock down every wing and no residents can congregate in the hallways at all, they’re no longer allowed to eat in the dining rooms, nothing. So many of these people are spending their last days under a draconian lockdown that is worse than what even prisoners are out through right now. All of our residents and staff were tested for the virus (government mandate) and we are all negative. Maybe we could lighten up and little bit and let these people feel like human beings again? Nope. Just zoom calls with loved ones. Most of the family members have no clue what that is and most of the residents aren’t with it enough to pay attention to a tablet screen. Honestly it just freaks most of them out because they just see the “tv talking to them.” This shit is nuts. We need to end this farce and get back to normal.
This is the real problem, for me. The way to assure good care for your loved ones in either the hospital or a nursing home is to be there. All kinds of bad things happen to people who don't have somebody else looking out for them.
Not a single resident has been able to get tested for the virus to this day. Now listed with 55 deaths it can only assume were caused by COVID-19, among the most of any such facility in the country, Cobble Hill Health Center has become yet another glaring example of the nation’s struggle to control the rapid spread of the coronavirus in nursing homes that care for the most frail and vulnerable.
So, there have been 55 deaths, no one has been officially tested, yet, they are "assuming" those deaths could only be from COVID-19.
Entire Nations have given up on testing having found that a Dr's diagnosis is more reliable. I have no idea who made any such diagnosis in this location, how much experience they have with this disease, nor any other pertinent detail. But it doesn't mean that these aren't CCPvirus fatalities.
There are many cases that are totally unrelated to de plague, that get counted in anyway. But Drs can tell, and usually when someone dies from this they've been caring for their patient for some time so they know.
The other day I overheard a mother talking about how she couldn’t visit her son anymore, who fell ill and is at one of the local nursing homes. She said they weren’t doing any visitations so she now walks through the yard (which is covered with snow up to your knees) so she can still be with him during his meals. 😭
If my Dad was still alive he'd have already taken over the entire nursing home, ruling it with a iron fist.
"Motherfuckers, I don't give a damn about your 'dietary restrictions' bullshit. If Mrs. Murphy wants an extra pudding cup, she gets an extra goddamn pudding cup!"
[cracks whip]
"NOW GO GET THAT PUDDING CUP, BITCH! And if you dare even try to put it on her bill I'll snap your neck like your weak, soy-infused child snapped his leg on that ski trip last year!"
Very true. My sister-in-law's family were very close and loving with their parents, but the mom developed dementia they could no longer care for her at home safely. Even in the nursing home though someone in the family was there every day, most times twice a day.
It's not that simple. Look at what it took in my Mom's case to keep her out of the nursing home:
my Brother demanded that I travel across the Country to help him with her house, in 2005. I slept about 3 hours in over a week. This was his first big step in getting things ready. He also just missed being buried in rubble along a stretch of freeway where both sides collapsed, burying the road in over 60 feet of rock.
He got her and her husband moved out of that house and into a home he had built an addition onto for them to live into; not long after that her husband died.
She would've been completely unable to handle that situation where they had been living. That was 7 years after he called me out to help. That's some seriously long term planning.
The next 7 years before her death she was able to continue living at her new home largely because one of his Sons is a CNA who was also unemployed. And as her condition deteriorated she needed extra care from RN staff.
That took a LOT! Not everyone can do this. Hopefully you will be able to care for yours, when the time comes.
my grandma is locked in her room, no visters are permitted. She can schedule a skype but they only have a handful of tablets.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Same, and my grandfather doesn’t even have the China Flu.
He just had a minor infection that got cured already and we’re going through hell just to get him home
Send in a Boogaloo oops team
Does she have a room with a window? Maybe you can have a phone conversation while looking through the window.
I'm sorry hear this.
It's the elderly I worry about most. Their social circles at churches and card games, coffee houses etc.... all vanish. And they are alone. Hopefully we can help them and open the country soon to activities they can handle also
I have a sister and a friend in elder apartments. It’s like they are in jail, except criminals have privileges. It’s horrible! My husband any I are both retired. We walk from 2-3 miles a day and we have gone shopping more in the last 4 weeks and spent more money — than in the previous 4 months. I am usually a homebody — but not when any government tells me I have to be.
That's what we've been doing, too. Bro Covfefe goes to the store everyday, even if it's just to buy bread.
He's been told by the police to go home and not come out to "buy gum" and the 2 of us have been given the stink eye for shopping together.
Our elderly neighbors are in 2 groups. Some stay inside and let their children deal with everything (they're fortunate). Others fit in a walk by taking the long way to the store.
There are plenty who live alone and are denied their social outlets; church, cards, coffee.
God Bless you all.
Their bodies, their choices. Good luck to you all.
Your Son guards DJT?!? Wow, I'd be honored to take bullets for him. I see purpose in him of a man that is NOT afraid to die doing the right thing in the service of his Country. You've got to be so proud! I trust you know assassination attempts have been made. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if DJT has been hit, and unlike Reagan didn't say anything publicly; that would be wise IMHO. The fact that I pray frequently for the physical safety of DJT means that has extended to your Son, too. Guardian Angels. Warring Angels. And everything else at the disposal of the Almighty.
I lost my Mom last August. She was 86. Her life had been mostly suffering for 15 years at least. She met a merciful end, died peacefully in her sleep at home.
I trust you know that your Mom being on a ventilator last year is not necessarily as damaging as what normally happens when a CCPvirus patient needs a vent? Normally it's ok, a good therapy. Especially if you can avoid an infection.
Thanks for sharing the bravery of your parents!
Amazing stories we can share here! We have the best people, we really do ...
WHAT!!!
Your son guards the president?
Whoa!
You, sir, are a rock star.
May you and your family be even more blessed than you are already.
Awe sorry pede..:( God Bless your mom and dad...hugs.
Your Mom got married at 19. Mine did too. 57 years of marriage is not a story you hear very often anymore. That's amazing!
:)
I'm not going to see my beloved grandchildren until this is all over. If I had my way I would take my chances. It's not really living without your family.
Add a tear for Joe. He's not in a nursing home, but what they're doing to him is transparent.
He's a criminal who sold his office, but this is cruel and unusual punishment.
He's also as unaware or worse about what is going on than those in the homes.
Joe's unaware of a lot of things...and it gets worse every day
He posted yesterday or the day before and to me he looked visibly much worse than before. He is on a very steep downslope.
High levels of stress from the campaign is accelerating his cognitive decline. The quarantine means he's not traveling as much, so that might be helping him somewhat for now.
Joe is a pedophile.
Cruel and unusual? He deserves what he gets, and more.
I'm sorry but I have no mercy for creepy Joe or the DNC. I'm the most compassionate and forgiving person you'd ever want to meet, but this is extreme. Shampeachment was based on DJT supposedly being "afraid" to campaign against Biden. Don't let them forget that.
40 years ago Biden was an imbecile. The moral lapse DNC had to stoop to with shampeachment deserves only to be ruthlessly exposed. And something approaching half the Nation has only dug in their heels on the topic.
Biden needs to be drug around like weekend at Bernie's, and no matter how bad he gets we need to confront them with these facts. They picked this fight, they don't get to cry Uncle. We make them die on this hill, which includes willful destruction of everything we've ever held dear. Everything anyone in the US has ever fought for.
Nursing homes are already so isolating, I have worked for 3 of them. Now they are shut out even more and they have to sit and watch the relentless fear mongering on the news and media 24/7. It's horrible. I feel so bad for them.
I also work and have worked in nursing homes. Yes, they are already very isolated and the lucky ones that have family to visit them really looked forward to those visits. Some of the very fortunate had adult children and grandchildren who came every day. My heart breaks for them and their families right now.
We truly do have the best people here! You guys do such significant work!
God bless you folks.
My mom passed last year but had progressed through various care levels in the years prior. Fortunately I had good facilities on my typical way to work so it was easy to pop in frequently. Her Alzheimer disease made her a particular challenge for her caregivers as she could get suddenly violent if she thought she was being "assaulted" for example during a diaper change.
Folks who haven't had the experience don't recognize how patient, caring, and selfless workers in care homes are. Preserving the dignity of elderly people who find themselves in a very undignified reduced station is a special skill and I saw a lot of it through my mom's care.
My faith leads me to expect that you have all won great accolade in heaven for the selfless work you do. And on behalf of all the residents who are not capable of expressing their thanks - thank you!
Thank you!
We need to fix that problem.
BRB. Calling gamgam.
Grandma is with dementia and in a nursing home. Total lockdown with no one except staff allowed in. Worried she won’t remember family when/if they’re going to allow visitors again.
So sorry. My mother suffered from dementia for many years. No words are sufficient. That is a valid concern about the change in routine. My heart goes out to you! (hug)
My mother in law, too. She was totally dependent on us for her last 2 years. We took her out of the nursing home and minded her at home. The number of trips and falls she took went down dramtically.
Glad my grandma lives with my parents. I visit her whenever I want
The Army in Spain found a care home abandoned. It was just before the shit really hit the fan there. So what I've found is once that happens for some reason news stops being reported on in the country.
Anyway.
They found a care home with no staff working at it. They had just left it and let the old people inside die. Think there was an outbreak of a couple of residents and then the workers left. Some died of the virus and some died of starvation.
It's a MASSIVE scandal in the western world. Some of the stories coming out are pretty bad.
I don't like to go into theories too much in the subject as its a very real subject for a lot of people. But if I was trying to spread a virus I would target care homes. Its something I thought about 2 months ago as a method for Trump haters to target America. Just a thought.
Our elders are our greatest treasures. Their collective wisdom gathered in their lifetimes is priceless. The anecdote from Spain is unfathomably tragic.
Hug your parents if you still have them! Just wash your hands and face first!
Don't get me started on Spain.
Aside from the scandal in the residencía, the lockdown order has totally disrupted Spanish culture.
Spanish social life takes place outside of the home. They have social and athletic clubs, neighborhood bars, church. All that has been taken from them.
They applaud for health care workers from their balconies at 8pm and beat pots and pans in protest at 9pm.
The children haven't been outside for 40 days. On Monday, they're supppsed to be allowed out for a kilometer walk as long as a parent is with them. But the rest of us can go hang until the government decides we can take a walk.
You live in Spain?
Yes, sorry. I've mentioned it many times but forget there's always fresh eyes.
An actual Spanish pede! I never knew. So glad to have you here, sharing your perspective
My wife is a physical therapist at a nursing home. The sad reality is that they're being treated as a repository for elderly patients from hospitals that are not symptomatic. But it turns out, some of these patients actually have the Chynese Virus. So the numbers are spreading in these nursing homes. It's not from the visitors, but in the stupid policies by the hospitals/government, at least here in Commiefornia.
You can't convince me that's not deliberate. More damning evidence that we need to physically remove our Governors from Office and make them stand trial for mass murder.
One of her patients passed away of a massive heart attack. This woman was in her 90s and they moved a newly admitted patient to share a room with her who turned out positive for the Chinese Virus. When her patient found out about her roommate's situation, my wife suspects that she got extremely anxious and nervous (she's a nervous wreck to begin with) and that's what caused the heart attack.
It's sad that cases like this, together with suicides due to depression, are not being taken into consideration and reported on. They are direct results of bad policies and decisions by so called officials.
Yes. It wouldn't surprise me if these will add up to be more than the virus killed by the time it's all over.
..... what the ****?
So Governor Dumbass says that its too dangerous to keep criminals in prison, cause they might get sick, and then tells facilities where the people most vulnerable to this are that they have to take infected people back in? Its official, then. The man is EVIL.
My Grandma-in-law is in a nursing home, she's almost 100 <3 <3 <3
(They aren't allowing visitors but we still talk to her on the phone of course.)
I have been, so many always could use more interaction anyway, it must be terrible now. Especially if a bunch of your peers just died at once.
I work in a nursing home and let me just say: it is infuriating and heartbreaking at the same time. Our residents have been stuck in their rooms for about a month now, no visitors, and they aren't even allowed to go out on our front porch with a mask while practising social distancing. They are all restless and I swear getting cabin fever. Several of my bed bound residents who had family coming 3 times a day are losing their hair! But they all have windows and their loved ones come to them, it's just not the same. It is truly frustrating because there is nothing I can do personally to fix it other than let them use my phone.
Respect and Gratitude for everyone who works to take care of our seniors. Pass it on.
Amen, brotha. Nursing homes don't get treated the same way as hospitals do in terms of equipment, funding, etc. My wife's facility does not have enough masks for everyone still because those have been stockpiled for hospitals and emergency responders.
So I do my bit. Whatever wife wants for dinner, hubby makes happen. Wife wants steak? Medium rare, no problem.
It's so sad how all those people are being treated. Many are close to dying. I don't think either of my two deceased grandparents lasted more than two months after they made the nursing home. I remember visiting my grandfather there at Christmas and even though he was quite out of it you could tell he knew everyone was there and was so glad they had all come to see him.
I saw a guy online say how his 82 year old neighbor made him some chocolate fudge because she was happy he wasn't afraid to treat her normal and give her a hug. Of course met with comments of how he was going to give her a disease. These people's feelings on the matter are thrown out even more dismissively and worse than ours that want the lockdown over.
Hey friends, Assistant Director of a Retirement Community here. We all hate it too. Heart breaking to watch them wave through windows. We want our people to be safe. Since there is no manual for this crazy time line, we just try to err on the side of caution. The pros and cons of overreacting seem safer than the pros and cons of underreacting. (Our residents can come and go still, but we're restricting visitors and not allowing gathering.) Trust me, we want to be doing fun things, not wasting time from end years. Have some grace for those of us that still show up to work with elder pedes. This has been a rough road to navigate.
Have some grace for those of us that still show up to work with elder pedes.
(Our residents can come and go still, but we're restricting visitors and not allowing gathering.)
Appreciate that. We don't know if we're right or wrong, but we're trying our hardest. I also appreciate you making this post. I've been wanting to get some of this off my chest lol.
It's frustrating knowing there are likely so many people who would like to help but who are not allowed- at precisely the time many people also are home from work.
It would be glorious to use volunteers in some capacity, I wouldn't have to work 7 straight days last week lol. But the risk (or perceived risk) of the virus coming into the building (on someone who doesn't need to be there) is what keeps us awake a night. It's already a huge leap of faith trusting our coworkers to sit still when they're off work.
exactly- and I get that. It's just tragic.
I’m currently working in a nursing home for a large company and the lockdown measures they’re making us take are insane. It started out as “just take precautions” but that quickly turned into no visitors unless someone is actively dying. That then turned into “every employee wears masks and goggles.” That turned into lock down every wing and no residents can congregate in the hallways at all, they’re no longer allowed to eat in the dining rooms, nothing. So many of these people are spending their last days under a draconian lockdown that is worse than what even prisoners are out through right now. All of our residents and staff were tested for the virus (government mandate) and we are all negative. Maybe we could lighten up and little bit and let these people feel like human beings again? Nope. Just zoom calls with loved ones. Most of the family members have no clue what that is and most of the residents aren’t with it enough to pay attention to a tablet screen. Honestly it just freaks most of them out because they just see the “tv talking to them.” This shit is nuts. We need to end this farce and get back to normal.
This is the real problem, for me. The way to assure good care for your loved ones in either the hospital or a nursing home is to be there. All kinds of bad things happen to people who don't have somebody else looking out for them.
Read the wording of this article carefully - https://apnews.com/979118089e662eba1d820122f8832a44
So, there have been 55 deaths, no one has been officially tested, yet, they are "assuming" those deaths could only be from COVID-19.
Entire Nations have given up on testing having found that a Dr's diagnosis is more reliable. I have no idea who made any such diagnosis in this location, how much experience they have with this disease, nor any other pertinent detail. But it doesn't mean that these aren't CCPvirus fatalities.
There are many cases that are totally unrelated to de plague, that get counted in anyway. But Drs can tell, and usually when someone dies from this they've been caring for their patient for some time so they know.
The other day I overheard a mother talking about how she couldn’t visit her son anymore, who fell ill and is at one of the local nursing homes. She said they weren’t doing any visitations so she now walks through the yard (which is covered with snow up to your knees) so she can still be with him during his meals. 😭
Unable to see their family who are probably a big part of what keeps them happy and positive in such a difficult place.
Even the Democrats' presidential nominee suffers from elder abuse.
sadly, I think that's true.
Yup. I was born in NJ. Bad part of the world for nursing homes, generally. The Governor seems to be willfully making that worse.
If my Dad was still alive he'd have already taken over the entire nursing home, ruling it with a iron fist.
"Motherfuckers, I don't give a damn about your 'dietary restrictions' bullshit. If Mrs. Murphy wants an extra pudding cup, she gets an extra goddamn pudding cup!"
[cracks whip]
"NOW GO GET THAT PUDDING CUP, BITCH! And if you dare even try to put it on her bill I'll snap your neck like your weak, soy-infused child snapped his leg on that ski trip last year!"
They are just going to be smothered with pillows and used as "covid 19" death statistics to push their mail-order communist regime schemes
A disproportionate amount of the deaths are in nursing homes.
We have pretty good clarity on the virus: it mostly kills older people with pre-existing conditions, which are in confined spaces.
kind of a cookie cutter response. Some folks need skilled round the clock care and not every family can provide that.
Very true. My sister-in-law's family were very close and loving with their parents, but the mom developed dementia they could no longer care for her at home safely. Even in the nursing home though someone in the family was there every day, most times twice a day.
It's not that simple. Look at what it took in my Mom's case to keep her out of the nursing home:
my Brother demanded that I travel across the Country to help him with her house, in 2005. I slept about 3 hours in over a week. This was his first big step in getting things ready. He also just missed being buried in rubble along a stretch of freeway where both sides collapsed, burying the road in over 60 feet of rock.
He got her and her husband moved out of that house and into a home he had built an addition onto for them to live into; not long after that her husband died. She would've been completely unable to handle that situation where they had been living. That was 7 years after he called me out to help. That's some seriously long term planning.
The next 7 years before her death she was able to continue living at her new home largely because one of his Sons is a CNA who was also unemployed. And as her condition deteriorated she needed extra care from RN staff.
That took a LOT! Not everyone can do this. Hopefully you will be able to care for yours, when the time comes.