Isolation became one of the biggest issues to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, it was a necessity to stay healthy through the hardest parts of the virus, especially when no one fully understood the extent to which it … [Read more...]
How Senior Care Can Fight Isolation
According to some estimates, about 25 percent of those individuals over the age of 65 in the US live in some sort of isolation. Isolation looks differently for different people. Your older loved ones (and yourself, for that … [Read more...]
Fighting Loneliness in the Senior Population
Loneliness is one of the biggest mental health issues that we face. It’s been growing in severity for years, but the pandemic brought many of these issues to light thanks to much of the population being asked to stay in their homes during … [Read more...]
Loneliness and Heart Disease
A new study confirms something that anecdotal observation has pointed to for many years. Social isolation and loneliness has a profoundly negative impact on our physical health. This research comes from the American Heart … [Read more...]
Aging in Place is a Priority for Most
A recent poll conducted by the University of Michigan found that most older adults want to age in place. This has become a big topic of conversation ever since the beginning of COVID when so many senior care facilities and nursing homes … [Read more...]
Celebrating the Holidays as a Family
For many, holidays like Easter are a time of joy and celebration. Even if you don’t follow a major religion, the holidays are a time of gathering together with family and friends. That’s why many employers give time off around these days; … [Read more...]
Taking Control of Social Isolation
The issue of isolation isn’t a new one for seniors. This has been an ongoing problem for a long time, and it has had a profound impact on the mental and physical health of seniors. Isolation tends to exacerbate not just mental … [Read more...]
Social Isolation Has Long Plagued the Elderly
Social distancing policies were put in place early on in the COVID-19 pandemic. They were meant to help slow the spread of the virus and prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed with too many patients at a time. And it worked. There are … [Read more...]
Fighting that Feeling of Being “Expendable”
One of the few things that was well known about the novel coronavirus right from the beginning of the pandemic was that it hit older individuals a lot harder than it hit younger ones. Because of this knowledge, nursing homes and assisted … [Read more...]
Reducing Feelings of Isolation with Increased Testing
During this pandemic isolation and loneliness have grown into serious problems for some people. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the senior citizen population. The elderly are at constant risk of being isolated and it has had a big … [Read more...]
The Widespread Issue of Isolation
The rules that we currently have in place are designed to “flatten the curve.” This has become a widely used phrase to support the shelter in place orders that we are experiencing, and it means that the goal is to limit the number of people … [Read more...]
Battling Feelings of Being Shut In
One of the ways that senior care facilities are battling the threat of the spread of the coronavirus is to stop the flow of visitors in and out of a facility. The biggest consequence of this, unfortunately, is increased feelings of social … [Read more...]