Images of the confined and elderly blowing kisses to family standing outside seniors residences and long-term care facilities as COVID-19 fears restricted human contact were and remain immensely saddening.
In recent weeks, I’ve found myself asking repeatedly whether these older people were residents of such facilities by choice and required 24-7 assistance beyond their families’ ability to provide.
Or has our pop-culture society reached the determination by some kind of unspoken generational agreement that even a minimal degree of additional assistance should be defined as burdensome?
This is a question, not an indictment. And not a welcome question, either. Browse a search engine and push-back is waiting. Questioning the placement of the