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How are our elderly parents coping with COVID-19 restrictions

Source: PCC

Many people have a parent or someone who's living in an aged care facility or a nursing home. Currently and due to health safety strict measures, visiting nursing homes to see the loved ones has been prohibited, and this is causing a lot of unpleasant experiences for the elderly

Susan Isaacs is a community development worker at the Parks Community Network at Wetherill Park, a suburb where many Assyrians live. she works to facilitate care for the elderly and specially people with dementia. 

Susan talks about the current restrictions because of the COVID-19 Pandemic and their effect on nursing homes and aged care facilities.

she says that many elderly are finding great difficulty trying to see their loved ones, specially grand children, but because the lockdown, many of them can't do that. Although many nursing homes are providing facilities like social media, face book, face time and other methods to make communications possible, but there are those old people who live at home alone and isolated and they either have no access to smart devices, internet or they can't use these devices, those are the most sufferers and effected psychologically.

Ms Isaacs says that this situation makes community care organisations, such as the Parks community network, to ask the government to start educating elderly people or carers for those people to start training and familiarise them with the technology, so they will be able to use it more confidently.

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