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Feistywomenrule's avatar

I feel her. Just found out one of my LTC puts residents in iso and there isn't even a TV in the room. Waiting for CMS/Feds to come (hopefully soon) as way overdue for survey, new admin. Staff has to isolate for 5 days, residents 10 days regardless of symptoms. Thought we were supposed to be "symptom based recovery" but too many NH admin are stuck in CYA mode.

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MN's avatar

An early-retiring nurse told me the lockdown protocols have turned our healthcare facilities into "death processing centers".

I'm starting to grasp what she meant.

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May in Boston's avatar

My heart is broken, too, lindad and GeroDoc. I am thankful every day that my mother passed away peacefully in 2018 in a wonderfully supportive LTC home. She had chronic asthma and feared above all the sense of not being able to breath. She was also, like me, severely hard of hearing. I am so grateful that she passed from this world without the horror of enforced isolation that dominates our current 'elder care' landscape.

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PS I am also so grateful in those former years that I was able, shortly before my mother and my aunt's deaths, to be with them, to hold their hands, to kiss and hug them to wheel them out into gardens, to tell them the extraordinary gifts that they had given me.

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