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Nursing Homes vs Covid
Residents
Feelings
Throughout this pandemic many residents have felt lonely from being isolated. This for them is causing confusion, anxiety, depression, etc.
"Loneliness was a problem in nursing homes well before COVID-19 arose, Michele Bellantoni, associate professor and clinical director. With residents being confined to their rooms, and family visits barred, the problem is magnified..."
Health Issues
Because of residents mental mindset right now, doctors and even employees are seeing a decline in residents health.
Dementia Residents
Dementia residents and patients are especially struggling during this time. Some feel as though they have been abandoned or left behind by family and friends.
Alzheimer’s Association director Doug Pace says, "Individuals living with dementia thrive best with a consistent routine and with person-centered approaches."
Forgotten
A family member of a resident in Florida had witnessed that many residents rarely are visited to being with. Quote on quote, "And when one of them passed away, the body was quietly removed from the care facility and no mention was made of him or her again." He had realized how some of the residents were truly lonely.
Solutions
Family Visits
Family and some employees argue that residents should be able to have there family visit physically. Sometimes for the residents, family is all they have and so they need them to not feel as lonely.
As of right now rather than allowing family visits to be physical, instead they are doing window visits at the moment, which is better than nothing but for residents with dementia, this only furthers the amount of confusion that they feel on a daily. For example a resident in a veteran home suffers with dementia and any time his wife does a window visit, he starts crying, he tells her as though it feels he has been abandoned or divorced which isn't the case.
Intervention
While some believe families touch is the solution, others are using therapy or medication to avoid the consequences of covid and or illness going around nursing facilities. They use laughter, horticulture, and reminiscence therapy.
Employees
Of course every employee through this time is free to there own opinion and they have there reason. The bottom line comes down to just caring for them. They want whats best for the residents health and it's hard to say because both solutions come with consequences. As we see here, employees are struggling right now to provide the best care and quality service they could possibly provide
Front Line
“It’s putting extraordinary responsibility on workers who are not trained or compensated to take the level of risk that they are taking,”.“Direct care workers are already living paycheck to paycheck. Now they are being asked to put their lives on the line for $13 an hour.”
Most nursing homes in America are poorly prepared to prevent and or manage the consequences of covid outbreak because of the lack of staff. Even given the intense policy attention, the shortages have not improved since May to July of 2020.
Even before Covid many employees had concerns among nursing homes. "Staff did not properly sanitize glucose meters or handle medications in a sanitary manner..."
Reputation
Nursing homes also get a bad reputation among how society views it. As if they are being held prisoners. Although nursing homes need a better image from the way they are now received they provide a lot of care and there are a lot of false rumors spread.
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