Covid-19 protocols pose real challenges to staff at the Anne Sullivan Centre in Dublin, its chief executive has said. The Anne Sullivan Centre provides a range of services for people who are deafblind including 24/7 residential services.
Speaking on RTÉ's Drivetime, Grace Kelly-Hartnett explained that care of the 13 residents is based on tactile communication.
She said "all conversations take place using hand movements, where a staff member's hands are underneath a resident's hand".
Ms Kelly-Hartnett was speaking after today's warning from the Disability Federation of Ireland that: "There are thousands of health and social care workers facing the coronavirus, for whom social isolation or distancing is just simply not possible." She said it