What is
coronavirus?
Coronavirus is stated
as a second pandemic virus of the 21st century. The first pandemic was reported
in late 2009 till 2010 which was known as a swine flu pandemic. It has left at
least 100,000 people dead. After the whole 10 years later in 2010, the second
pandemic virus has been reported which is known as COVID-19. The first case of
the virus reported was in late 2019 in Wuhan. According to the report it is
stated that a man was infected due to the seafood that he had consumed. Shortly
after the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 was found to be spreading all over china
which caused more than 80,000 people infected and above 3,000 people dead. From
late 2019 till today 2020 April, there are more than 2.4 million confirmed
cases and 165,939 deaths worldwide.
What is the
purpose of a nursing home?
When we talk about the nursing home, it is a home shelter for
elderly people. It provides elderly people with all the professional services
such as healthcare, food, and shelter. The services are mainly provided by the
caretaker who takes care of elderly people. In California, there are millions of nursing homes that are active on a daily basis. However, after the rise of the coronavirus, it had affected the nursing homes negatively which
resulted in millions of elderly people suffering, neglect, and abused.
How coronavirus
did lead nursing homes to result in adverse effects?
A coronavirus is
a contagious virus that can spread from one person to another easily, it led to chaos worldwide along which affected the nursing homes as well. As the
awareness of social distancing started to rise, all the business got shut down,
including the nursing homes and hospitals as well. Elderly people had been the
worst victim to suffer due to the virus outbreak.
As there were no caretakers available at the nursing homes to
take care of the elderly people which resulted in millions of elder people to
suffer from sickness and death. In California, the highest number of reports were noticed which led elderly people to neglect and
ignore. It led to the worst conditions in elderly people and they suffered the
most from the virus.
However, there’s another problem that was highlighted in a nursing home lawyer is that the caretakers
were abusing the elderly people and ignoring them when they are supposed to
take care of them and it made the situation more worst and alarming.
How can
nursing homes improve the situation for elderly people?
In order to improve the nursing homes for elderly people, it is essential to impose the laws against the caretakers so that they do not exploit the elderly people or do any harm to them. If laws are not imposed then it will never improve the situation for the elderly people and they will keep on suffering which should be stopped. Nursing home lawyers should appoint invigilators to keep an eye on the caretakers that could contribute to preventing the exploitation of elderly people.
