Nearly 9 in 10 covid deaths are in people 65 or older [from Washington Post]
Some epidemiologists and demographers predict the trend of older, sicker and poorer people dying at disproportionate rates will continue, raising hard questions about the trade-offs Americans are making in pursuit of normalcy — and at whose expense.
By Ariana Eunjung Cha and Dan Keating
One consideration, then, is whether those 75 and up require more isolation or more social contact for their own benefit and protection?
In long term care settings, such as CCRCs, do visitors from outside the facility provide potentially more protection for residents? Or less?
And between residents: more contact or less?
And between Independent, Assisted Living, Memory Care and Nursing Home residents: More social contacts or fewer?
Some CCRCs encourage friendly visits by independents to “assisted” residents. But independents who refer to Assisted Living as a source of “continuous assistance” need to take their friendliness straight away to their nearest Assisted Living to experience such luxury!
And as to nursing home and memory care residents : Who cares?? Or can we screw our courage to the sticking place lest excuses be made again to separate residents from residents, and residents from outsiders?