The human side of healing: How seeing loved ones helps COVID-19 patients – CBC

Lancet study on 2,088 patients showed family visitation linked to less delirium, a common risk of COVID-19

Feb 26, 2021

Tom and Virginia Stevens have been married 66 years, and lived together in an assisted-living facility in Nashville, Tenn., when they got COVID-19 last summer and had to be transferred to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

The couple was split up and put into separate rooms.

“I think that traumatized them,” said their son, Greg Stevens. “They kind of live for each other, at this stage, so adding to the not-feeling-great and the stress of COVID, they separated them.”

Tom Stevens, 89, became disoriented.

“They found my dad wandering the halls and he was looking for my mom,” said Greg.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/lancet-study-family-visitation-covid-19-delirium-1.5926726