I spent some time in assisted living before and after surgery when I was really sick a couple years

[captain queeg]

Ago. I think the virus is going to plow thru those places and kill thousands. Worse yet are nursing homes; spent a week in one of those. At least in assisted living I had a private room. I suppose there are some upscale places, but I think most of them operate on a shoe string. There is a very high turnover rate which can’t be good and in the assisted living places everyone eats together. It would take extreme diligence to keep the place safe and I really doubt that will happen

[pnwest]

1. there's a confirmed case in my mother's facility and i'm scared shitless.

[True Blue American]

3. Is she in general or assisted?

[pnwest]

4. she's in the locked memory care unit. but staff

goes back and forth between the locked unit and the regular assisted living. Another home in the same county has been hit with 10 cases. I'm at the opposite end of the country, and even if I flew back there, they wouldn't let me in to see her anyway. So I'm just left to imagine the worst and pray for the best. They're keeping them in their rooms mostly, and keeping them 6 feet apart in the dining area. The regular residents understand what's happening and can tolerate being kept out of their dining room and having dinner brought to their rooms. BUt the dementia patients can't grasp what's happening and interruptions to their routines are very upsetting - so they're still bringing them into the dining room for meals, but keeping them 6 feet apart. I cannot imagine how the staff is handling this in the dementia ward. Trying to keep them from wandering into each other's rooms, etc. What a fucking godamn mess.

[captain queeg]

5. The dining room would be the hardest but I can see with dementia residents you'd have to stick to a

Routine. I’m sorry you can’t see her. It’s so strange to me how in some areas people are being so careful and in others it’s being ignored. A friend of mine has a regular doctors visit in a couple days. He went down to the clinic before the statewide lockdown to check it out. They are only letting one patient at a time into the waiting room. I guess you check in through the glass and go back to your car till they call you.

[True Blue American]

6. No, you would not be allowed in.

That is really terrible. I am sorry for both you and your Mother.

[True Blue American]

2. 4 have died from a Nursing home

In Troy.

My DIL’s Mother is in assisted Living. They locked it down, no visitors except end of life.

To take them things you ring the bell, they take it. Meals are delivered to each room. Dining room closed.