Would you put your LO in a rehab facility with Covid-19 still in the community?

You can control your own home environment better so this would feel safer to you. But can you cope with your LO's care needs? 93 & not walking? Can he/she stand & pivot to commode/wheelchair? Will you need aides to visit? (Of course insist on masks). Of you have the right equipment & some help you may do well.

My dad is in rehab now, also after a hospitalization and currently unable to walk. We’ve been down this road many times before, though not with Covid to consider. We chose inpatient this time primarily because the in home PT has been so poor previously and he truly can’t walk at all right now. The facility he’s in has no Covid as of now, each patient is tested prior to admittance and while there as well as staff being regularly tested. It’s a risk but one we felt we had to take. We’re doing the window visits, they’re awkward, but better than nothing

Sneaky, my MIL (85) is in a LTC facility due to short-term memory loss and refusing to get out of bed. Four weeks ago covid ran through the facility and staff, despite their very stringent lockdown and shutout and all the PPE. Once it was in there, it was in there. My MIL has no underlying health issues but got the virus and it took her almost 4 weeks to recover, but she did recover fully (as it appears right now). One of the worst things about her being in a facility was not being able to be with her physically. They moved her to a makeshift 1st floor covid wing and we could have window visits, but she was in a shared room, not next to the window, and so weak and out of it that we could barely have more than 3 words with her. Standing next to the window meant standing next to the window fan that was venting the room. FaceTiming or phone calling needed to be managed by the nurse, who was already overworked and required using up an entire set of PPE just for a 3 minute phone call. My takeaway is that if you can have your LO at home, she will be better off, as long as you know what you're in for in terms of caregiving or hiring caregivers. Once they lock down the facilities (and they may do it again this fall) you won't have access to her no matter what. Just something to consider. I know it's not an easy decision.