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Are our vulnerable elders rapidly declining during Covid-19 without family care, oversight and protection?

Family have been entrusted by elders to be their advocates, and they need us to be heard.

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."

"Trust is choosing to make something important to you vulnerable to the actions of someone else."

There is no substitute for the love and care a vulnerable senior receives from members of their own family in long-term care facilities.

Are antipsychotic or antidepressant medications prescribed being used 'too routinely?'

Is my father truly aggressive or is it understaffing and/or a lack of training or skills?

Are family concerns feeling inconvenient, not valuable, unheard? As if facilities are making decisions about our elders, without us? Yet...

Our days with our elder loved ones are numbered and I feel allowances need to be considered for family inclusion in their care.