One of the biggest challenges and heartbreaks of the coronavirus pandemic comes when a COVID infected person is, by necessity, cut off from their family.
Hospitals and long-term care facilities are restricting or in some cases prohibiting visitors in efforts to reduce the transmission of the virus. In some cases, particularly in the elderly, deaths have occurred while the person is in isolation and families are devastated because they don’t get the chance to say goodbye.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring, Dr. Meredith MacMartin, Medical Director at the Jack Byrne Center for Palliative & Hospice Care at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H), worried about COVID-19 patients struggling with isolation from loved ones.
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