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Estar conectados, indefensos, con la muerte inminente, es uno de los grandes miedos de algunos ancianos.

Ancianos rechazan ser intubados por miedo a Covid-19

May 12, 2020 at 3:17 p.m.

En abril, Minna Buck revisó un documento que especificaba sus deseos en caso de enfermar gravemente. "Sin intubación", escribió en letras grandes en el formulario, asegurándose de incluir la fecha...

Medical staff in full personal protective gear check charts while removing patients from Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Riverside, California.

As coronavirus lurks, families are locked out of nursing homes. Is it safe inside?

May 12, 2020 at 1:03 p.m.

Families are beset by fear and anxiety as COVID-19 makes inroads at nursing homes across the country, threatening the lives of vulnerable older adults. Alarmingly more than 10,000 residents and...

In shutting out threat, seniors in continuing care communities feel shut in

May 12, 2020 at 11:33 a.m.

With tight restrictions in place at their continuing care retirement community, Tom and Janice Showler are getting on each other's nerves. Most days, Tom, 76, likes to drive out of...

Carter Vu, propietario de una peluquería en Atlanta, revisa la tintura en Ann Walsh el 24 de abril, el primer día que se permitió que abrieran los salones en Georgia después de un cierre de cuatro semanas para detener la propagación del coronavirus.

Cómo adaptarse a la nueva normalidad tras el Covid-19

May 8, 2020 at 11:44 a.m.

A medida que muchos estados reinician actividades —la mayoría sin alcanzar los umbrales recomendados por la Casa Blanca— comienza un nuevo análisis sobre los riesgos de COVID-19 para los estadounidenses....

El miedo al coronavirus motiva a fumadores a dejar el hábito

May 4, 2020 at 3:41 p.m.

En 40 años de fumadora, Katie Kennedy intentó cuatro veces abandonar, pero siempre reincidía. Hoy, cada vez que le entran ganas, se le aparece la misma imagen: filas de pacientes...

The sign at Aetna Inc.'s headquarters in Hartford, Conn.

COVID tests are free, except when they’re not

May 1, 2020 at 9:14 a.m.

Even before a novel virus swept around the world, Anna Davis Abel wore a mask to protect herself from getting sick. The 25-year-old writer lives with lupus, a chronic autoimmune...

A patient sits in her apartment in the Brooklyn borough of New York during a Jan. 14, 2019 telemedicine video conference with Dr. Deborah Mulligan.Policymakers and insurers say they are eliminating copayments, deductibles and other barriers to telemedicine for patients. But the shift to cost-free telehealth is going less smoothly than speeches and news releases suggest.

Insurers are touting ‘telehealth’ doctor visits as a free solution. But patients often find out otherwise.

April 28, 2020 at 2:26 p.m.

Karen Taylor had been coughing for weeks when she decided to see a doctor in early April. COVID-19 cases had just exceeded 5,000 in Texas, where she lives. Cigna, her...

Shalondra Rollins se graduó con un título de asociado en educación de la primera infancia en 2018. Murió de COVID-19 el 7 de abril de 2020. "Quiero que el mundo sepa que no era sólo una estadística", dice su madre, Cassandra. "Era una persona maravillosa. Fue amada".

Raza, ingreso y código postal, ¿sentencias de muerte por Covid-19?

April 28, 2020 at 12:00 p.m.

Empezó con un dolor de cabeza a finales de marzo. Luego vinieron los dolores corporales. Al principio, el médico de Shalondra Rollins pensó que era influenza. El 7 de abril,...

Older adults with COVID-19 have several atypical symptoms such as seeming "off" or not acting like themselves early on after being infected by the coronavirus, according to physicians.

Seniors with coronavirus show unusual symptoms, doctors say

April 27, 2020 at 2:17 p.m.

Older adults with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, have several "atypical" symptoms, complicating efforts to ensure they get timely and appropriate treatment, according to physicians. COVID-19 is typically...

Margaret Jones, center, with Kensington employees, is seen from her second-story window after celebrating her 91st birthday with Amber and Lucy Cavazos, from Huntington Park, who had used a lift to reach her window's height, in the courtyard of assisted living facility Kensington Redondo Beach.

Many seniors depend on assisted living facilities. Now coronavirus is threatening the entire industry.

April 9, 2020 at 1:44 p.m.

David Aguirre jumped in his truck and drove toward the hospital in the predawn darkness the minute he got the news: His 91-year-old mom was being rushed from her Texas...

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