Dad was in a senior living complex after a couple of falls, rehab, hospitalizations and a pacemaker put in. He will be 91 in a week. We were told he can not go home without 24 hr care as my mother would not be able to care for him alone. He has Alzheimer's and some balance issues but can get up and down on his own with observation. I made the decision to move in with as long as he went to Adult Day care 3 times a week so I got a break and my sisters would give me monthly breaks of 4 days in a row. Well two weeks after we brought him home everything shut down because of the virus. I've now been with them without breaks since March 10. Day care is now reopening with limited amount of people. My sister is concerned about him being exposed to others already. I am too, but need the break so bad. We have had no one in the house, including relatives. The place he would be going is part of a senior complex that has all levels of care and no virus cases have taken place at the facility at all during this. I'm sure they will be very careful but a lot of the people taking their loved ones there will be going back to work and be exposed to many others so that's the concern. Do we take the chance or not?
How can you plan to do this safely?
Are the sisters supposed to come to his home? Then do that, practicing strict Covid precautions.
Hope you get a break soon.
Over the weekend, the local CV counts went up badly with more confirmed cases ad hospital admissions in one week than the previous 3 months. My rural county went from 23 confirmed cases in 3 months and zero active cases 10 days ago to 22 active current cases confirmed in the last 6 days. Most have already been tracked to the protesters - local protesters who met with the out of town agitators and brought this mess into our community. Since the cases are still mostly in the younger crowd who doesn't interact with the seniors at ADC, Mom is still attending ADC but I'm watching CV community stats carefully.
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