With the pandemic state of emergency coming to a close, and with flu season now flu-and-COVID-19 season, experts are shifting their focus to what we can learn from the experience and apply to future ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Nathanael Laing has been writing cards to nursing homes for about 10 years, but once the coronavirus pandemic hit, he knew he had the ability to make a real difference. So, he got ...
GREGG COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - According to many family members, it is an ongoing problem: Long-term care facility isolation. Residents are unable to have close contact with family because of COVID-19.
NEW ORLEANS — As COVID-19 tears through Louisiana’s nursing homes and adult care facilities, the residents and their families face life-or-death decisions, some about loved ones suffering in silence.
A new study by researchers from the School of Nursing has found that the COVID-19 pandemic brought a new level of isolation and loneliness to nursing home residents, leaving them with a palpable sense ...
More than eight months into the pandemic, the very isolation that is meant to protect nursing home residents from Covid-19 is also contributing to their deaths. Confined to their rooms and largely cut ...
A 100-year-old Scottish woman told her family that she “just wants to die” after spending months at a nursing home without regular visits from loved ones due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a ...
PARIS—The coronavirus has resurged in Europe’s nursing homes, killing thousands of older people and forcing facilities to make a difficult choice: impose another period of crushing isolation or risk ...
Nursing homes set restrictions to lower risks, but Covid-19 has continued spreading in some homes, and residents are now grappling with consequences from isolation. Colleen Mallory and Deanna Williams ...
A resident at a Durham nursing home is being treated for COVID-19 at Duke University Hospital, and a staffer is in isolation at home, officials said. A resident at a Durham nursing home is being ...
Visit your senior neighbor from time to time. Loneliness has long been linked to a range of health problems, from depression ...