A mother and two daughters moved into a Dublin nursing home for more than six weeks at the height of the Covid pandemic to look after residents. Saying they had decided to stay for the safety of the home’s residents and their own families, Claire Guinan said: “It was really strange not going home. I could not believe it.”Staff diagnosed as positive were immediately moved “away from residents and other personnel”. Looking back, the three say the time was “tough”, especially when they saw residents to whom they were close struggling. We could not open the windows,” said LaurenLike other nursing homes, visits ended in early March so many residents were lonely.

Source: The Irish Times July 03, 2020 18:31 UTC