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Handling our aging parents with COVID-19
I would love to know what you guys are doing to support your parents during the quarantine. My mom is a widow and lives alone. She's healthy but is safely quarantined. I will do grocery runs for her once a week but wear a mask and keep my distance upon delivery. She's handling it well, but I'm nervous about loneliness setting in with another month ahead of us. Any thoughts besides Facetime?
I'm having a really hard time getting my parents to understand how to be socially distant. My mom runs the food bank for the whole county back home in Maine (I am an 8 hour drive from her). She is still receiving donations, packaging up food, and distributing food to about 100 families a week. I did at least get her to change some of her practices like putting the boxes of food out side for pick ups, etc. However it just seems like they feel that the distancing rules don't apply to them as a generation. Don't get me wrong, she is doing an amazing thing and the people who volunteer for her (who are also in their 70s) are also doing great things helping out their community, but as a generation they seem to be paying less attention to the warnings. I'm not sure all the reasons why.
Agreed, it is so crazy how many friends and clients tell me they are struggling with their parents just doing what they want.