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Please lend your voice to restore visitation in long term care facilities!
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR) is participating in a national effort to restore reasonable visitation to residents in long term care facilities. Simply stated, the harms caused by cutting residents off from visitors have become unbearable. Residents throughout the country are suffering profound social isolation, frustration, and neglect. The federal and state governments locked up facilities in March and nothing has really changed for three months.
It is time to ease the visitation ban and accommodate some in-person visitation. Outdoor visits with precautions such as proper distancing, wearing masks and temperature checks for visitors can and have been safely arranged in some facilities.
TAKE ACTION:
Join CANHR by posting a picture or video on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and telling us why visitation is important to you. Use the hashtag #VisitationSavesLives and tag or email key policy makers. Have a look at our Social Media Toolkit.
Family advocates promote accountable care. We support #visitation. We support #regulation. We want govt #action.
#VisitationSavesLives #EndElderAbuse #ElderCare #GetThemPPE
Assisted living facilities face a COVID-19 crisis. But unlike nursing homes, their cases often go unreported because they’re not subject to the same oversight.
@EdMarkey and I are introducing legislation to require strict data collection and reporting. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/covid-19-killed-7000-assisted-living-congressional-report/story?id=71560689
Family advocates promote accountable care. We support #visitation. We support #regulation. We want govt #action.
#VisitationSavesLives #EndElderAbuse #ElderCare #GetThemPPE
We are simply not doing enough to protect our seniors or workers in assisted living homes from COVID-19. The federal government must ensure these facilities are actively monitored for potential outbreaks and are getting the test supplies and PPE they need.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/covid-19-killed-7000-assisted-living-congressional-report/story?id=71560689
When will our state and federal governments realize there are elderly residents suffering because of their inaction? When will they feel accountable? When will they take appropriate responsibility?
#ElderlyLivesMatter #FreetheElderly #EndTheFamilyBan #VisitationSavesLives
Then there's Mrs. H. Petite. Dressed to the T. Hair perfectly coiffed. Moved to #nursinghome for social reasons. Didn't want to be lonely after her husband's death. She constantly walked the halls on her walker and visited. Can't believe she also died. #VisitationSavesLives
.@GregAbbott_TX @DanPatrick @TexasHHSC @loiskolkhorst Time should've long been up on the suffering we've caused elderly Texans. God forgive us for treating them so inhumanely & help us end their avoidable nightmare! #EndTheFamilyBan #VisitationSavesLives #ElderlyLivesMatter 10/