Senior living communities range in their level of care and disease prevention. Here's what you need to consider if you have a loved one in senior care now.
Having a spouse or parent in a nursing home is never easy. It's even more difficult now, with lockdowns and heightened fears about loved ones' physical and emotional wellbeing. Family members are feeling anxious and helpless, especially if they visited regularly and provided personal care, which they can no longer do.
Senior living communities range in their level of care and disease prevention. If you have a family member there, do you know how well it's handling COVID-19? What questions should you ask if you're not sure? Here's what you need to consider if you have a loved one in senior care now. Caretakers should minimize the time spent in residents' rooms — and wear PPE when there — to reduce the risk to both parties.Senior homes are facing an enormous challenge. Before COVID-19, many of them didn't place a high priority on personal protective equipment ; some still don't — or can't due to shortages of masks and gloves.
However, there's still a lot that senior living facilities can and should do to minimize infections besides washing hands, sanitizing surfaces and strictly enforcing their no-visitation policy.A care facility should conduct temperature checks on all staff members before their shifts begin. If they have a fever, they go home. While no one likes being short-staffed, that's much better than risking the transmission of the novel coronavirus.
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