Thread by @DRTomlinsonEP, I love this work. Two homes deployed staff who spoke fluent Italian [...]

David R Tomlinson 💙

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I love this work.

Two homes deployed staff who spoke fluent Italian and Cantonese to monitor international media stations early in the pandemic. This enabled them to gauge the seriousness of the situation daily and was cited as key to the decision, in these two homes... /1 https://twitter.com/adamgordon1978/status/1327202259411800065

https://twitter.com/adamgordon1978/status/1327202259411800065

...to lockdown by the 2nd March 2020, three weeks earlier than the national lockdown and in direct opposition to all English government guidance at that time. This included a refusal to accept any admissions, family visits and, at one
home, staff moved into the home.../2

...for periods of 6 weeks continuously in rotation. Both homes (independently) drew on international sources of infection guidance in advance of any UK guidelines:
“we knew this wasn’t a flu thing early. We had a member of our core staff and she gave daily updates... /3

...to our management from Italian News. Old people were suffering. The Italians love their old folks despite what our media was saying. So we decided as our residents are our folks. We love our residents. So we locked down.” @ColdProofUK @LTCcovid @alicriadoperez @mancunianmedic

Some homes commenced new routines to help residents’ cope with lockdown, including daily exercise programmes, healthy eating regimes and daily activities. Large scale gardening and decorating projects had been undertaken with the residents as co-producers.

I'll leave it there - the positive stuff!
Lots more for others to delve into in this excellent manuscript. @LABailey @katylindemann

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