feels right to bring those restrictions down. and visiting restrictions have taken their toll. kate believes her mum deteriorated when visits are like this from behind a screen. now she s recognised as an essential caregiver, so come visit her mum whenever. she wants the role recognised in law. i ve lost 18 months of her life - at a time when she needs her family around her most. so, it s vital that we have. that we get essential caregiver status put into law. visiting restrictions have already decreased in northern ireland. alison holt, bbc news.
that residents can have. if they go out on a day trip, they will no longer have to test or self isolate when they return and if there is a covid outbreak, so that means two or more staff or residents testing positive, then the length of time that the care home has to close its doors will be reduced from 28 days down to 1a days. at this care home, they believe vaccinations mean they can manage additional risk. 50 they believe vaccinations mean they can manage additional risk.- can manage additional risk. so far the guidance can manage additional risk. so far the guidance has can manage additional risk. so far the guidance has been can manage additional risk. so far the guidance has been quite - can manage additional risk. sr f: the guidance has been quite cautious on those measures, quite rightly. we are working with a vulnerable group of people. with all of those management processes we have put in place around a race, it feels right to bring those restrictions down. and visiting
we have got more admin staff coming in, some providers do get some volunteers to come and support them, but all of that, we have to manage, risk assess, and make it happen. so, i think resources are going to be very, very tight. they are going to be difficult, especially as we come towards this festive period and the new year, where staff who were exhausted will also be wanting some time out, with theirfamilies. nadra, i wonder if i could just ask very quickly, do you feel as if these new guidelines are clear? well, we will not know until they are published on tuesday. we do not know what the guidance will say. what we know is the headline, which is that it will be three nominated individuals from each family and the essential caregiver, so how that will work is that families will need to nominate people and i think that in itself will pose some challenges, where families have already planned that grandchildren might be coming
in the second world war. she had been a district nurse all her working life. it s breaking my heart, actually. that s what it s about. the government says that every care home resident should be supported to have an essential caregiver, who can visit the home to offer companionship, and who can visit even if there is a covid outbreak in the home. but look at sylvia beautiful dress. john s wife sylvia is in a home and has dementia. what do you love about her? sense of humour. gentleness. her love for everybody. he has been trying for months to get essential caregiver status, so he can visit sylvia more often. it gives reassurance there is someone there to hold and touch and cuddle as necessary, which she has lost over the last year and a half. as i have to say, so have i.
ifeel as if i ve abandoned her and that she wouldn t think i cared. and that. that s. .. that s the upsetting thing. eileen says her mother s home is offering four families a 30 minute slot on christmas day. she doesn t know yet whether she ll be one of them. my mother trained as a nurse in the second world war. she had been a district nurse all her working life. it s breaking my heart, actually. that s what it s about. the government says that every care home resident should be supported to have an essential caregiver, who can visit the home to offer companionship and who can visit even if there is a covid outbreak in the home. but look at sylvia beautiful dress. john s wife sylvia is in a home and has dementia. what do you love about her? sense of humour. gentleness.