CBC
With most long-term care residents vaccinated, restoring their quality of life is urgent, experts say
When Maureen McDermott and her mom, Elsie, got their second COVID-19 shots about a month ago, she felt positive. “I was hopeful that we would move from the mode we’re in right now, which is barely existing, into a mode of actually living out her golden years,” McDermott said. Elsie McDermott, 93, lives in River Glen Haven, a long-term care home in Sutton, Ont., about 70 kilometres north of Toronto, and suffers from dementia. The isolation of the past year in COVID lockdown has sent her into “very serious decline,” her daughter said. “There’s many, many times my mum has said to me, ‘This is not living. And I don’t want to do it anymore,'” McDermott said. “I would much rather my mom had passed a year ago [as] opposed to having her live that year, and me outside looking through a…
