Barbara’s parents, like many seniors in their 80s, are trying to keep from contracting COVID-19 by isolating at home.
To keep fed, they signed up for the governor’s Great Plates program, which delivers two restaurant-quality meals per day; other groceries are ordered online by their daughter.
In normal times, Barbara, who lives two hours away, would visit weekly. Now she uses the phone to connect.
Over the past several months, she has become increasingly worried about her mother’s health and well-being. On a recent phone call, her mother related a story about her arthritis flaring up.
“I just don’t know what I’m going to do,” she said again and again. Barbara must have heard that phrase over 20 times in the span of a few minutes.