Nursing Home Restriction’s Impact on Families

Nursing homes and assisted living centers across the country are restricting access to visitors.

This is for the safety of their residents because it is the elderly that are most susceptible to COVID-19.

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This is for the safety of their residents.

This can be hard on families who are used to visiting their loved ones.

News 10's dominic miranda spoke with a woman today whose parents live in a local assisted living center.

He joins us now with more on her creative way to show them how much she cares.

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Restrictions like this make it almost impossible to see your loved ones...especially if they live in a nursing home.

I spoke with brenda toney today whose parents both are in a local assisted living center.

She told me a unique story on how she's tried to see them.

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Both, brenda toney's 93 year old parents live there and struggle with mild dementia.

The center encourages phone calls or facetimes... but toney says it's different.

""for them, to talk to us on th phone is just not the same as actually seeing us.

So to actually see their children and know they're okay means so much."

Toney usually sees her parents almost every other day.

She told me they don't know exactly what's going on.

So she went to bethesda outside her parents window and got their attention.

They chatted for a few minutes.... and she was particularly touched by the interaction she had with her father.

"so we talked a little and he thanked me for coming.

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