Beverly Spanier is finding it very difficult to get through the days. The resident at the Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre in Côte-Saint-Luc is no longer allowed to have caregivers spend time and look after her.
She had hired several for more than 70 hours a week, but none of them are permitted inside since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. “I believe that we should allow the caregivers in and have them tested at the door when they come.
Check their temperature. Talk to them,” Spanier told Global News on the phone from her home. She says while staff are doing all they can to care for the residents, there aren’t enough health-care workers available. “The government needs to hire sufficient workers to run the operation,