Thread by @rightsforresid2

A week in which regulations relaxed and life started to get back to normal....

Unless you are in a care home

You can nominate 5 people to see (only two at a time) and if your care group provider allows this #rightsforresidents

We could go in a group of six inside a pub, shop, restaurant, cinema, museum - you cannot if you are in care home - you must stay outside and if you do go inside you have to isolate for 14 days - again this depends on if your care provider will let you go out #rightsforresidents

We can move home, always a traumatic&stressful experience. If you are in care home you can as well, but you have to isolate for 14 days. Imagine being dropped off somewhere strange&not being able to leave your small room for 14 days - many with dementia wander #rightsforresidents

If you go for an overnight stay in hospital you are tested before you go in, whilst you are there and on departure - if you are in a care home you then have to isolate for 14 days as well (and many are being made to do this for a day appt as well) Why? #rightsforresidents

We can now, cautiously, hug our friends and family again - unless they are in a care home in which case you may still only get a 30 minute socially distanced viewing from behind a screen - all have been vaccinated, all are being tested - why #rightsforresidents

We understand that precautions have to be taken but guidance is not always followed, essential care giver status not understood or ignored by many and still thousands are being prevented from having meaningful time with loved ones - this must change. #rightsforresidents

There are many examples of fantastic homes and providers doing amazing things, why can't all? The postcode lottery continues, time is against most in care we need guidance to be mandatory and #essentialcaregiver enshrined in law so this never happens again #rightsforresidents