Just one year after the Covid-19 pandemic declaration by the World Health Organization, the elderly in the Nursing home ‘Joaquina de Vedruna’ Puerto Real are beginning to regain some of the habits they lost when the health crisis erupted.
Now, once the vaccination of both residents and workers of the center has been completed, they have begun to go out, to take their first walks around the residence, in a space that the Puerto Rea City CouncilHe has bounded it for the exclusive use of the elderly.
There they can sunbathe and enjoy an environment of which they have been private for 12 monthss. You can also receive, remotely, the visit of relatives, since in the center has taken de-escalation very seriously and they still maintain many restrictions regarding visits to the residence. Now, at least, they do not have to greet each other through a glass, although always maintaining all precautions. This Thursday, the exit of the elderly to the terrace of the center was enlivened, by surprise, with live music. Hammond Leslie, ‘the street pianist’, gave them a concert accompanied by Manu Sanchez, another virtuoso of the piano.
Music, medicine for the soul, has served as therapy, to make a compulsory confinement more bearable that little by little begins to disappear. Boleros, like the classics Brownish skin The perfidiousness were part of a repertoire that the elders identified at the moment, and thanked them with applause and much affection. Another solidarity initiative of Hammond Leslie that for the last few months he has been using music as medicine, in street concerts throughout the province.
The ‘Joaquina de Vedruna’ Residence for the Elderly in Puerto Real has been one of the few in the province that can say that, so far, it has managed to defeat the virus. The work of the Congregation of Carmelite Sisters of Charity Vedruna and its excellent staff of professionals, managed to turn the Residence into a bunker, into a space ‘Covid Free‘in which no contagion has been regretted.
On January 13, vaccination began for the 70 people who make up the community, between users and employees, who received the second dose 21 days later, on February 3. In all the months of the pandemic, life has remained at the center in a kind of microworld in which they have not overlooked any holiday. Neither the nuns, thanks to the offices of Father Troya, a resident of Vedruna, nor the more cultural ones, such as the carnival, the fair, the May cross or the day of Andalusia, which they celebrated a week ago.
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