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The pandemic has made isolation for older people much worse, but pets can help dramatically – even if they aren’t real. New York State has purchased around 1,000 to help the state’s elderly.

Nothing can stop Leora Martin from celebrating a huge milestone. On June 20th, the Elkhart, Indiana resident turned 100, a week after finding out she was free of coronavirus.

A 104-year-old woman from New York who survived stage 4 melanoma, two broken hips, and lived through the Spanish Flu, has now also recovered from coronavirus.

Two sisters died from global pandemics over a century apart. On April 14, Selma Esther Ryan died from coronavirus just days before her 96th birthday. 102 years earlier, her 5-year-old sister died from the 1918 Spanish Flu. Read the story now.

Eight retirees in Florida contracted coronavirus after their regular poker games and within weeks three were dead. The seniors would get together four nights a week to play poker in their Miami-area condominium.

A woman in Turkey has become the second 107-year-old person to beat coronavirus. After being treated for the virus, the centenarian made a miraculous recovery and was released on April 13th.

A 90-year-old woman has died from the virus after turning down a ventilator and instructing healthcare workers to “save it for younger patients.”

he Neighborhood Resource Center of Greater Fulton feeds the kids and elderly...