If you were lucky enough to have a ground floor living unit you could talk to you relatives through the glass, otherwise, you yelled from the balcony, if your upstairs unit had one.
I keep walking away from the computer and am trying to ignore these kind of stories. This kind of stuff just makes me want to cry. If someone is in a nursing home it is certainly because they need regular help with daily functions.
How is it that a staffer can be close enough to give them their meds, but a family member can’t?
For those that need help eating, a staffer is fine, but for family, it’s too close?
If someone needs help getting in or out of a bed or wheelchair, staff is fine, but no to family?
For those that need help dressing, again, staff can touch them, but family members holding their hand is too much?
Staffers make their food, probably using bare hands touching the very food going in their mouths, but a family member can only talk through a glass window?
Everybody realizes that these staffers are just people like the families right? They don’t live at the facility, they go out and about as much or more as the family members.
Why is nobody raising a fuss, a ruckus, or a protest about this nonsense?
We have no idea where nursing homes staff goes when not at work or their personal hygiene, but we know family would never endanger a loved one. But staff can be there but no loving family. It has been almost 5 months since we have been able to visit our loved one.
Those questions are the same my husband and I ask each other all the time!!
I've got no answers, and, fortunately or not, am not faced with the problem at this point in time.