{"id":19522,"date":"2022-02-18T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19522"},"modified":"2022-02-18T08:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T13:00:07","slug":"as-covid-slogs-on-seniors-find-fortitude-waning-and-malaise-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19522","title":{"rendered":"As Covid Slogs On, Seniors Find Fortitude Waning and Malaise Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late one night in January, Jonathan Coffino, 78, turned to his wife as they sat in bed. \u201cI don\u2019t know how much longer I can do this,\u201d he said, glumly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coffino was referring to the caution that\u2019s come to define his life during the covid-19 pandemic. After two years of mostly staying at home and avoiding people, his patience is frayed and his distress is growing.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/as-covid-slogs-on-seniors-find-fortitude-waning-and-malaise-growing\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/as-covid-slogs-on-seniors-find-fortitude-waning-and-malaise-growing\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"104\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) Late one night in January, Jonathan Coffino, 78, turned to his wife as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,48,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-mental-healthbehavioral-health","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19523,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19522\/revisions\/19523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}