Physical and mental isolation go hand-in-hand. Author: Hollie Strano Updated: 6:31 AM EDT April 16, 2021
CLEVELAND The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on everyone, but especially for some of our most vulnerable loved ones. While we are starting to see the light, the stress of this last year on our seniors will be felt for years to come. They have been isolated physically, and in many cases, mentally two separate parts of the body that really go hand-in-hand.
“There’s this statistic out there that loneliness has the same health affects as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, says Beverley Laubert, the state of Ohio’s Long-Term Care Ombudsman. So people are thinking about the psycho-social toll on the isolation, but it really does have a physical toll as well.”