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Documenting nursing home reunions after one long year

  Sarah Mervosh, The New York Times  Published: 07 May 2021 05:16 PM BdST Updated: 07 May 2021 05:16 PM BdST Dan Fabrizio, right, cries as he hugs his mother Marie Fabrizio for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, at Reformed Church Home in Old Bridge, NJ, on Monday, Mar 29, 2021. Bryan Anselm/The New York Times Anita P Franco, 82, left, holds hands with her son Victor Garcia in her room at Focused Care at Fort Stockton, a long-term care nursing community in Fort Stockton, Texas, on April 5, 2021. She had not seen him in person since before the coronavirus pandemic began last year. Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times

Together Again: Documenting Nursing Home Reunions After One Long Year

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/us/coronavirus-nursing-home-reunion.html Bryan Anselm for The New York Times They saw each other and wept. They held hands and didn’t let go.  How to begin to say “I love you” after a year? ‘Joy, Love, Grief’: How It Looks When Families Reunite The pandemic kept nursing home residents and their loved ones apart for a year. Photographers for The New York Times were there when they finally reunited. A daughter holding her mother’s hand. A son overcome that his 95-year-old mother survived the pandemic. A stoic family patriarch, suddenly in tears. After a year of excruciating lockdowns, these were the scenes at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities as they began to open up this spring. Before the arrival of vaccines, one in three coronavirus deaths in the United States had ties to nursing homes and similar facilities.

COVID-19 ravaged Texas nursing homes Here are the stories behind the numbers

Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune “It scared me.” Lynda Langford and her husband, Ray, raised their son on their 4,000-acre ranch in Uvalde, about 90 miles west of San Antonio. She taught English and computer skills at the local high school before retiring two decades ago. In 2019, 74-year-old Lynda took a spill in their home out in the country and broke her arm and shoulder. The pain medication made her dizzy, and even after she stopped taking the meds, her falls happened more frequently. Home care was hard to come by in their rural area. When the pandemic hit, the couple was close to making a difficult decision to move Lynda into long-term care so she wouldn’t be home alone while Ray was working on the ranch.

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