Next Avenue (6/18, Birnstengel) reports there has been a “strong correlation between the COVID-19 pandemic and cases of elder abuse and mistreatment.” In Minnesota, the state Elder Justice Center “has seen clients dying in long-term care facilities who are denied visits from family members, despite the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ guidelines saying family is allowed in end-of-life scenarios.” Furthermore, the center “has also received calls from victims being abused by family members or others they are sheltering in place under stay-at-home orders.” In addition to “making older populations extra vulnerable to neglect, abandonment and abuse financially, emotionally, sexually and physically,” the pandemic has also increased.