The manager of a Vernon housing facility for low-income seniors is concerned that Interior Health supplied care aides coming into the facility aren’t wearing masks.
The manager of the Vernon Restholm Association, Jerry Tellier, said the non-profit society plans to start providing a mask to each of the care aides that come to assist residents multiple times a day. “The only way I’m going to allow those care aides into our place now is by having them wear a mask and hope that I don’t run out before I get more,” Tellier said. “Our average age is 87 years of age.
They are the critical mass that if this comes into our building, I don’t even like to think of what could happen to them.” Tellier said the Vernon Restholm is currently in a lockdown