Wicked Strong
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You are right in the mental effects on older people. I live in my home, but stay at home. I find myself bursting into tears just reading news and posts on WS, I don't have an appetite, so I just pick at anything, even then it doesn't even taste good. I find myself losing my balance a lot now, at first I thought it was my slippers, but now I don't think so, my hands are also getting very shaky, and I find typing on the keyboard results in a lot of double letters in a word. In otherwords, I'm a wreck, I know it and there is nothing I can do about it.It has changed considerably since they went on lockdown on Mar 11th.
Now the nurses call each resident in the morning and the evening. If they cannot reach them by phone, they will go to their door and knock. If no answer, they will enter the apartment.
But as long as Mom answers their calls, there is no face to face contact with nursing staff.
Her meals are dropped off at her front door, and she eats alone. Which makes me sad because she did love to eat dinner with her friends downstairs. And it gave her a reason to get dressed up and somewhere to go.
She does have a balcony and she sits to watch the birds and can see some of her neighbours on their balconies, so she does have a little bit of social contact that way.
We call her a lot and she seems OK most of the time, but kind of melancholy at some times, thinking she may never see her great grand babies again.
I agree with you on the mental effects. My mom seems confused sometimes now. She is 89 so that is logical. But she used to have a daily routine, got dressed, made herself breakfast, when to exercise class midmorning, came home and ate lunch. Then napped and got up and dressed to go down to dinner.
But now she is quarantined inside her apartment all by herself for 6 weeks already. I have noticed a slight drop in her short term memory and ability to track conversations.
We got an email that one of the staff members tested positive for CV. But so far none of the residents have been confirmed.
MOO