For nearly a year, nursing homes and assisted living centers have been mostly closed to visitors. Now, it’s time for them to open back up and relieve residents of crushing isolation, according to a growing chorus of long-term care experts, caregivers, consumer groups and physicians. They’re calling for federal health authorities to relax visitation restrictions… Read More »
The Trump administration on Friday announced a deal with CVS Health and Walgreens to administer coronavirus vaccines to the elderly and staff in long-term care facilities. The vaccine will be free of charge and available for residents in all long-term care settings, including skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, residential care homes and… Read More »
Quite rightly we’ve been concentrating on saving the lives of thousands of people threatened by Covid right through the pandemic. But with numbers of new cases falling, hospital beds emptying, and figures of those who’ve died reassuringly descending, it’s time to turn our attention to those stalwart people who did survive and concentrate on their… Read More »