SOME RESIDENTS at the Geriatric Hospital receive few or no visits from family members. And the hospital’s manager Joanelle Oxley-Worrell is calling for this growing trend to be changed as it has an emotional effect on the affected residents.
The manager of the largest elderly care facility on the island, which currently has a capacity of approximately 300 residents and a staff of 360, was speaking to the media after a church service yesterday at the Bay Street St Paul’s Anglican Church to mark the beginning of the hospital’s Senior Citizens’ Week activities.
“We have some persons who do come on a regular basis, some people come every day. But there are lots of persons who do not receive [visits] from their families,” she said.
Having sympathy for frustrated residents, nursing staff contact family members of those no one visits and encourage them to come, Oxley-Worrell said.
