It is a devastating showdown that has opposed for several weeks families of elderly people revolted not to have access to their loved ones and nursing home management worried about the health crisis.
Despite vaccination of seniors in retirement homes which is around 90%, social life is struggling to resume its course in all retirement homes.
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The first to be vaccinated, will the residents of retirement homes be the last to return to their “old” life?
This paradox, difficult to accept after more than a year of deprivation of the link, swells the ranks of new groups that bring together families angry at the limitation of visits.
“I always see my mother behind a plexiglass window.
Room visits are only authorized in an end-of-life situation.
Residents, although vaccinated, are subject to isolation for seven days upon returning from an outing.
My mother is 91 years old.
I don't want to inflict this pain on him.
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