‘Hug tent’ provides safe embraces at elderly home
AP, LOUISVILLE, Colorado
Lynda Hartman needed a hug.
It had been at least eight months since she touched her 77-year-old husband, Len, who has dementia and has been at an assisted living center in suburban Denver, Colorado, for the past year.
On Wednesday, she got a small taste of what life was like before the COVID-19 pandemic sort of.
Lynda Hartman, 75, embraces her 77-year-old husband, Len Hartman, who has dementia, in a “hug tent” set up outside the Juniper Village assisted living center in Louisville, Colorado, on Wednesday.
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Thanks to a “hug tent” set up outside Juniper Village at Louisville, Colorado, Hartman could squeeze her husband albeit while wearing plastic sleeves and separated by a 4mm-thick clear plastic barrier.
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