Family Visits to Nursing Home Residents

This week we talked with David Berkowitz from Aperion Care about nursing home residents during COVID-19. The first topic we dealt with was the “prevention paradox” as Mr. Berkowitz explained. An example of this paradox was what sometimes a person who doesn't take care of himself lives longer and better than someone who has good lifestyle habits. However, as he emphasized, those who take care of themselves will always have a more quality life, although there are always isolated cases with the other way around.

Then we talked with David Berkowitz Chicago Nursing Home a little about how the elderly people who live in residences have experienced the pandemic and how distressed they were by all the news that came to them from the state of the country. For this reason, in many residences they chose not to put the news on television anymore. We also exposed the fact of everyday life that older people do so well and as for their good, many of their daily habits had to be altered. Let's not forget that we added the fact of not being able to receive visits.

We also did a review of all the instructions and the situations that as a nursing home owner David Berkowitz Chicago encountered, and how it was extremely difficult to cope with every demand (mostly information) and everything they needed (staff, tests, and material of protection). To all this, it should not be forgotten that, logically, the relatives demanded information on the state of their senior loved ones, and how this became an added problem when, for example, a resident has more than one child and with all this circumstance the administrators don’t not have time to inform about family visits to each one separately.

At the end of the talk, we recall that residences, even with the pandemic situation, are a sector that continues to create jobs and where personnel are sought on a recurring basis.

Then David Berkowitz from Aperion Care delved a little more into how they can be the visits in the residences according to the phase of confinement in the municipality in which the residence is located. It is also important that the residence has also been authorized to receive visits. This would be the second requirement. The third requirement will be all the preventive measures that must be taken, and to which we must adapt if we want to visit our family member.

Even so, we can not be less than six feet from our loved one and it is even possible that there is a plastic partition in between. Everything a little bizarre is true, it remains to be seen how older people adapt to it. What is clear that we must take into account that all these protocols are to "save lives" so we must have patience and understand that all this is done for a good reason.