Do you know an elderly person living in a retirement home ?

My Dad. He is 94. This has been very hard on our elderly population.

I do, yes. My aunt is 93, soon to be I [i]hope[/i], 94...next month. I've been talking with her a little more often than usual, during this time. Although she is restricted in getting out much anyway, I know these current restrictions have been pretty hard for her in various ways.

Her mind is as sharp as ever, and she can still enjoy certain things she has in the past, but the isolation is tough. I suspect she might be getting depressed, but has rarely been one to show it.

Yes. I am responsible for my 91 year old aunt who is in an assisted living facility. Fortunately, we moved her from a larger facility just as the pandemic was beginning. I honestly believe she would be dead if she had remained there. Now she is getting excellent personal care, almost like a spa. She is used to being alone, so she doesn't miss contact with me. I can have "window visits" through closed windows, using speaker phones.

My mother passed from Covid at the nursing home in April. She was so depressed. Contracted covid when the facility began allowing covid patients (but we could not visit 🤬) She died within a week of testing positive. I never got to say goodbye.

if possible, it may be advisable to remove elderly parents and relatives from nursing homes and bring them home until the nursing homes find a better way to deal with the virus. With more people unemployed and/or working from home, there may be the opportunity to care for them at home and with home help nurses if needed.

Otherwise, you may wish to check the policies and practices for how your nursing home is handling the crisis. Are the hospitals sending contagious nursing home residents back to nursing homes where they can pass the virus to staff and other residents? Nursing homes have an intense level of physical contact between residents and staff, and as the staff moves from one resident to another the virus can pass the diseases to everyone within just a few days.

prayers to the elderly who can't have visitors some who don't understand why.

covid has ravaged retirement homes here

My mother-in-law is losing her mind.

She's only 56, but pretty miserable. Bored out of her skull

wraithhorn one of my dads brothers he is fine manged to avoid corona virus where he is a resident