BC Eases Limits on Care Home Visitors. Families Fear Changes Don’t Go Far Enough
A fraction of our 20,000 long-term care residents have designated essential visitors who can visit three times a week.
Moira Wyton is The Tyee’s health reporter. Follow her @moirawyton or reach her here. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. SHARES Jeanette Harper fought for seven months to support her mother in long-term care. It shouldn’t be that hard for families, she says.
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For the first time in seven months, Jeanette Harper isn’t looking over her shoulder for a long-term care employee trying to rush her out after her weekly 30-minute visit with her 89-year-old mother.
BC promises to address concerns about isolation of seniors in long-term care.
Moira Wyton is The Tyee’s health reporter. Follow her @moirawyton or reach her here. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. SHARES Dr. Bonnie Henry: ‘The number of new cases we’re seeing in every health authority shows that some people made a decision to make an exception of themselves.’
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Bans on sports activities and social gatherings outside your household have been extended for a third time as B.C. public health officials warned Thursday of a troubling upward trajectory in COVID-19 cases.
Jeanette Harper just wants to help care for her mother. Government and care-home policies make that impossible.
Moira Wyton is The Tyee’s health reporter. Follow her @moirawyton or reach her here. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. SHARES Jeanette Harper says she sees her mother Marguerite Bell’s condition deteriorating as the result of strict visitor limits.
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After spending two weeks in October caring for her 89-year-old mother at home, Jeanette Harper says bringing her back to her Nanaimo long-term care facility “was like taking your child to kindergarten for the first day.”