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04

Nov 2020

Coronavirus
Coronavirus

Care home confusion brings more distress

Published: 4 Nov 2020, 15:57 GMT

by Connor Creaghan

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North Yorkshire's care homes reopened to designated visitors at the start of November after being closed for a month. But it is still not clear what will happen when lockdown begins tomorrow, causing more distress to many residents and their families.

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Judy Bass with her dad

Local health officials still do not know whether people will be allowed to visit relatives in care homes when lockdown begins tomorrow.

North Yorkshire County Council restricted visits during October but advised homes they could relax the rules in November to allow one designated visitor for each resident.

But there is confusion whether this window of opportunity for visits will prove short lived.

Richard Webb, the county council's director of health and adult services, said at a press briefing today:

"Our advice still applies as of today but we are promised further government guidance on what will happen with care home visits tomorrow.
"I am assuming there will be restrictions on care home visits. As it stands we are just trying to support families and residents and care home providers."


Judy Bass, a Harrogate resident, used to see her 99-year-old father with dementia in a care home every day before the first coronavirus lockdown.

Today will be the first time since March that she will be able to see him for a 'door visit' after a 'window visit' three weeks ago.



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She will wear full PPE to stand at the door of her father's room. Ms Bass feels the stop-start nature of visiting will confuse her dad:

"I do not want to say that it is all bad because I am actually seeing my dad tonight for the first time in months. The communication has just been poor.
"It seemed that all of a sudden we were allowed to visit care homes and there has been a big rush this week to cram the visits in. But now we have no idea what will happen."