VANCOUVER – A woman whose father suffers from dementia and lives at a B.C. care home where six people have died of COVID-19 says he is becoming increasingly lonely and anxious at the facility where few visitors are allowed.
Kelly Shellard said her 81-year-old father Bill Shellard used to eat dinner at a table with a resident who has died. Shellard says she has been in quarantine for a week after possibly being exposed to the novel coronavirus at the Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver. “He’s 81 and he’s done,” she said Tuesday. “He doesn’t want to do this any more because he’s getting depressed.” Shellard, an elementary school teacher, said she’s been caring for her dad for five years and has seen him regularly since he was admitted