COVID-19 restrictions mandating people to stay at home in Manitoba are causing more social isolation for seniors in the province.Peggy Prendergast is a retired teacher in her 80’s.
A widow who lives alone in her home, Prendergast usually teaches other seniors in assisted living homes how to paint in order to supplement her pension and keep busyWith further restrictions now in place, though, that has all come to a halt.“I guess it’s also not feeling useful,” Prendergast said. “I’ve always felt through my teaching career and through my earlier retirement years that I was doing something that was valued by society.
Now I am a housewife without a husband and without a family here, and it doesn’t seem to have to same joy that it used to.” ‘A.