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It’s a lovely mud hole, or at least better than the misery and chaos here before.
This empty lot at 93 Street and 107 Avenue was for years a typical slum property gang fights, needles, containers of urine emptied out the windows, piles of mattresses and garbage in the alley. But the beauty now is in the silence, and in the hope this property and other eyesores might finally become something better.
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Alberta’s fledgling COVID-19 recovery clinics are watching the third wave and bracing for their own wave of new patients in two to three months time.
But they’re not talking just about older adults with lung scarring or wasted muscles from a long stay in intensive care.
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Clinicians and therapists specializing in long-haul COVID say typical patients are 30-year-old to 50-year-old women, otherwise healthy adults who often had mild symptoms during the initial infection. Then they’re hit with a viral flare-up with symptoms of neurological damage, brain fog, a racing heart or extreme fatigue similar to chronic fatigue syndrome. And it’s not going away.
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Tragedy is defined by small moments and raw emotion.
After three months of interviewing seniors and their families about the pandemic, several of those stand out. One is the anxiety: Don Brown calling his daughter 30 times each afternoon, wondering why she’s not visiting as his brain struggles to understand the masks and tension in his dementia ward.
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Then there’s longing and tenderness: Laurence Babiuk, pre-pandemic, quietly entering his wife’s long-term care room to simply hold her, cuddling on the bed.
Cracks to Chasms: Treating families as just visitors set Alberta care homes up for heartache This is part three of a four-part series. Part 3 analyzes how supports evaporated when Alberta Health banned visitors from care facilities. Since January, more than 700 older adults and family members helped shape our coverage of Seniors and COVID-19 through Groundwork, an Edmonton Journal pilot project in engagement journalism.
Author of the article: Elise Stolte
Publishing date: Apr 22, 2021 • 41 minutes ago • 7 minute read • University of Alberta associate professor Jasneet Parmar in front of Clover Bar Lodge in Sherwood Park. Parmar points to Clover Bar is one facility that works hard to support and include family caregivers despite pandemic restrictions. Photo by Greg Southam /Postmedia