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Melody Schreiber

‘They’ve been an afterthought’: millions of elderly Americans still vulnerable as pandemic caution wanes

Pandemic David Grabowski America Yuki Iwamura Nursing Home United States
A woman holds up her hand to a window in greeting. On the other side of the window is an elderly man in a hospital bed who has been hooked up to monitoring equipment.
Susan Morales waves to David Feinour, 71, who has Covid, at St Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, California, on 10 July 2020. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP

It was Mother’s Day in May 2020, and an elderly woman lay dying in a Rhode Island nursing home. Her children couldn’t visit because of Covid, and as much as Adelina Ramos, her certified nursing assistant, longed to provide comfort from her bedside, she had to leave, even though she could see the woman was slipping away.

She had 25 other patients to care for that day.

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