Articles / Aged care visitor guidelines balance residents’ rights and coronavirus risk – but may be hard to implement
One in four Australians who have died from COVID-19 is from an aged care facility.
These deaths show how fatal and fast the spread of the infection can be, and the extreme challenge of containing the virus once a positive case appears in aged care homes.
But there is also community pressure to ease social distancing rules for aged care residents and, for facilities that banned visits, to start allowing family members and friends to see their loved ones again.
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