Favorite Music and Video Calls Can Help Alleviate Coronavirus Isolation for Elders
Music and face-to-face connection. Both offer hope. Both reduce stress. Both are underutilized in healthcare. We live for connection. It’s true that many of us have music and connection. However, as the pandemic has revealed, many do not.
Emerging from the novel coronavirus’s devastating impact have been many feel-good stories: balcony concerts, ICU patients set up with classical music, upbeat songs blaring in hospital corridors when a recovering COVID-19 patient is discharged, video calls for hospital patients and nursing home residents on lockdown.… Read more