With coronavirus crisis safety measures in place, Quebec long-term care homes are now all supposed to be accepting family caregivers within their walls, save for a few exceptions.
Ste. Anne’s Hospital, which houses both veterans and civilians, is not one of those exceptions. Yet despite it not being on the government’s list of residences allowed to reject family caregivers, 63-year-old Dorval resident Cynthia D’Errico says she is still not being allowed in to care for her 97-year-old mother with dementia. “I’m so frustrated, I can’t find the words,” D’Errico told Global News on Wednesday.
Her mother has lived at Ste. Anne’s Hospital for three years. Usually, either she or one of her other siblings is in every single day to visit but since