Lafayette family gets creative to visit loved ones at nursing homes

Lafayette family gets creative to visit loved ones at nursing homes

Stopped in-person visits to keep the coronavirus out.

News 18's anna darling talked with a lafayette family about how they have had to change their routine to stay connected with their loved ones.

Look live: people who have parents in nursing homes have to get creative in order to still visit their loved ones.

Like visiting them at their window.

And they have to talk to their parents through the window while on the phone.

"she just lights up when she sees my face" sharon and jeff newell both have parents living in lafayette nursing homes.

Sharon's mom artie lives at signature healthcare and she visits her mom at the window everyday.

/nat i love you&.

I miss you/ "my mom has beginning dementia and that's the main reason she's in the nursing home and that she can't be on her own completely but most days she's bright and active" sharon says her mom doesn't fully grasp what's going on right now in our world.

"i'm not sure she understands exactly what's going on right and the depth of this virus and how its effecting the whole country.

She did ask me the other day how much longer is this going to be?"

A questions that we are all wondering.

After visiting artie, they go to visit jeffs dad jim at the springs.

His siblings julie and jana also visit him.

/nat look at that he's waving/ julie is the primary caregiver for jim.

"i still feel like a care giver even though we weren't living under the same roof being there every day, taking him to his va appointments but then they locked the doors on march 10th" the former oxford high school basketball star says he hasn't experienced anything like this before.

"he's 96 and to go through the great depression world war 11 and the various other outbreaks over the past 50 or 60 years, this is really different" and it's about to change again.

Now that we are under a stay at home order, the newell family members cant visit their loved ones at the window anymore.

But that's where the beauty of technology comes in with video chat /nat i'm gonna blow you a kiss!/ "just started on friday and we were the first ones, my mom and i.

It was interesting seeing my mom look at it and try to figure out how that was happening" while its hard for the whole family to have to stay separated, they know it will help in the long run.

"i just feel for all of our seniors and pray for everybody and lets get through this" anna darling news 18 tonight: