With most of the residents and staff at three Montgomery and Bucks County senior living communities having been vaccinated and COVID-19 rates in the community decreasing, pandemic-related restrictions that halted visitors and group activities are guardedly being decreased. "I think the toughest thing over the past year has been when we've had to pull back and how that affects our residents as far as socialization and family visits," said Dan McKee, president and CEO of Grace Inspired Ministries, which has about 700 residents living on its Lutheran Community at Telford and The Community at Rockhill campuses. Ed Brubaker, president and CEO of Living Branches, which has about 1,100 residents on its The Willows, Souderton Mennonite Homes and Dock Woods campuses, remembers being in a meeting with a newly formed task force for the coronavirus response when Gov. Tom Wolf announced the state-wide shutdowns last March. At the time, it was expected to last for about two weeks.