Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「When Savanna Hollar, 90 years old and almost blind, broke her shoulder in August, her sons decided not to send her to the rehabilitation facility she went to after a broken hip three years before. They brought her home to recover in the farmhouse near Yadkinville, N.C., where she has lived since 1951.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Americans have long relied on institutions to care for the frailest seniors. The U.S. has the largest number of nursing-home residents in the world. But families and some doctors have been reluctant to send patients to such facilities, fearing infection and isolation in places ravaged by Covid-19, which has caused more than 115,000 deaths linked to U.S. long-term-care institutions. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Hollar’s local nursing home had reported Covid-19 cases among residents, and it wasn’t allowing visitors. If sent there, she wouldn’t be able to see family members or get care from the aides who have long helped her at home. “She’d be lonely and scared and afraid to move,” said son Keith Hollar, 63.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ The family hired a rotating cast of eight workers to watch her constantly, with two at a time on duty during the day. At home, Hollar could enjoy her cat, her favorite recliner and tomato sandwiches made with produce from her garden. She has since recovered.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Since the end of 2019, occupancy in U.S. nursing homes is down by 15%, or more than 195,000 residents, driven both by deaths and by the fall in admissions, a WSJ analysis of federal data shows.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read more at the link in our bio.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷:: @jeremymlange for @wsjphotos」12月25日 0時08分