For Alzheimer’s Patients And Their Families, Coronavirus Can Mean Loving From Afar

(By Jonathan Hamilton  for NPR)

Before coronavirus, Ken Gregersen spent most days with his wife, Evie, who has Alzheimer’s and lives in a care facility near Des Moines, Iowa.

“I would go and give her breakfast, lunch and dinner practically every day,” Gregersen says. “We’re a very close couple and we’ve been married 67 years.”

Then the facility began restricting visits as part of an effort to protect its residents from coronavirus.  Continue reading article here…

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