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Another story has revealed the human cost of lockdown as video footage revealed the moment a great-great-grandmother with dementia living in a care home was told she couldn’t hug her daughter.

A Kentucky teenager is being praised for going the extra mile recently when he learned an elderly customer at the store where he works was in need.

A 104-year woman locked down in a care home for months has gone viral after filming a message begging to see her family again.

Medical experts are urging the adoption of “focused protection” to replace current coronavirus lockdown policies that, they say, have produced nothing less than “devastating effects on short and long-term public health.”

Manchester is working with artists to “improve LGBT visibility” in elderly people’s homes to encourage residents to ‘come out’ as homosexual or transgender.

Pope Francis appealed to young people Sunday to reach out to the elderly, telling them that “they are your roots!”

An elderly woman in a Swedish nursing home went without eating because none of the carers working that day spoke Swedish well enough.

New York Democrats remain silent on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s original decision to put coronavirus patients in New York nursing homes.

Matthew Stewart and his grandma used their burgeoning TikTok popularity to post a video of an at-home “salon” day during lockdown in April.

LONDON (AP) – From resounding applause to ostracization and isolation. That’s essentially the journey Lt. Cmdr. Robert Embleton, who served 34 years in Britain’s Royal Navy…

A Connecticut media investigation found nursing homes with large numbers of coronavirus residents tended to have prior infection control violations.

The Chinese coronavirus lockdown measures should be lifted for those over the age of 70 who are considered to be in good health, as the mental health implications are starting to outweigh the dangers of the virus, a group of medical professionals have informed Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

A retirement home in the Swedish capital of Stockholm that is currently awaiting renovations will be turned into apartments for newly-arrived migrants.

A document from the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm has revealed that Wuhan coronavirus patients over 80 and those over 60 with multiple organ failure will not be given priority for intensive care.

Charities have condemned reports that doctors are pressuring senior citizens into signing do not resuscitate (DNR) forms.

A woman in Litchfield, Minnesota, got the sweetest surprise from her husband on March 26, the day she turned 84.

Sweden’s state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has ruled out taking personal responsibility for a surge in Chinese coronavirus outbreaks in retirement homes across the country.

A New Jersey group is providing hundreds of homebound seniors with a quality breakfast and dinner each day, as many of these homebound seniors cannot leave their homes due to the coronavirus.

Dutch doctors are asking their older patients to choose between either long-term ventilation or letting nature take its course if they become infected with the Chinese coronavirus.

A 20-year-old student is giving up her spring break to deliver groceries for free to the elderly, who are considered at high risk if they catch the coronavirus.

A 95-year-old in self-isolation received a surprise birthday visit from her family during the global coronavirus pandemic.

A Japanese man who allegedly tried to infect others with coronavirus after his diagnosis has died, Japanese media reported Wednesday.

Birx added that the risk for serious illness among the majority of Americans was low but that they could transmit the disease to the elderly.

President Donald Trump urged governors to build up their own supply of the bedside ventilators which are needed to keep victims alive as the Chinese-originating epidemic floods their lungs, the New York Times reported.

Elderly Britons may be told to self-isolate for four months under the government’s “wartime-style” effort to combat the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

The federal government is directing nursing homes to shut down visitors amid the coronavirus epidemic, President Trump said March 13.

An Italian mayor has fallen under scrutiny for stating that patients who cannot be treated for the coronavirus “are left to die.” A doctor at a hospital in Italy’s northern region, however, has stated that “you probably don’t proceed” with patients “between 80 and 95” with serious breathing difficulties.

The director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases said most people will not get seriously ill from coronavirus.

A woman in Monroe, Virginia, is not letting age stop her from helping run the pie shop she started with her husband nearly 70 years ago. 

Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg once suggested denying cancer treatment to elderly Americans as a solution to overcrowding in hospitals. 

Two senior ladies have formed a special friendship thanks to a volunteer program in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. 

The value of the elderly is not only in the past, Pope Francis said Friday, because they are also “the present and future of the Church.”

An elderly landlord has died after he was allegedly shoved down a flight of stairs by his tenant in Queens, New York, on Sunday. 

Pope Francis told senior workers Monday that the world’s future rests on a dialogue between young and old, while urging the elderly to engage in volunteer work to as a remedy for loneliness.

A 95-year-old piano connoisseur with arthritis was surprised with a private piano concert from the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s pianist on Monday thanks to the generosity of family and community.

A couple in Austin, Texas, recently broke the Guinness World Record as the “Oldest Married Couple.”