Jan Roostal is stressed when he meets up in the parking lot outside the apartment hotel in Arninge. His mother does not like to be alone and we quickly go to the reception where Paula Roostal is waiting.
It has been just over a month since Jan Roostal checked out his mother from the nursing home and rented a two-room apartment for both of them. He has just extended his contract until the end of August.
- Before the restraining order, I or my brother visited my mother almost daily. For two months we were not allowed to meet at all, then it was half an hour a week with a distance of two meters, says Jan Roostal who feels that the golden edge disappeared completely from Paula's everyday life.
Offered to use protective equipment
Paula Roostal hears and sees very poorly and can neither read, watch TV or listen to the radio. She is therefore, according to Jan Roostal, completely dependent on visits from relatives and on daily walks. Something he feels that the staff at the accommodation does not have time for.
- I have offered to put on a visor, mouth guard and disposable gloves to walk with her.
"You can not think: next summer"
Jan Roostal understands that the municipality wants to protect the elderly, but thinks that the measures are disproportionate.
- It is terrible what has happened and very important to protect, but at the same time you have to strike a balance: risk against benefit. When you are 97 years old, you can not imagine that next summer or in three years I will meet my relatives again.