Online meeting platforms and teleconferencing have been a godsend, a frequently-used substitute for gathering in person at retirement communities and nursing homes. Seventy-one percent of New Hampshire’s deaths from coronavirus have occurred at nursing homes, which house the state’s most at-risk population. We have no thoughts yet about how we would do that safely,” said Brenda Buttrick, administrator at St. Francis. Pierina, who lived at Tower Hill in Sanbornton, has been at St Francis for a year and a half, Guy said. With a nurse assistant at her side, Ruth Grove, 96, of Gilford, waited in a wheelchair on the walkway outside St. Francis.

Source: Daily Sun May 11, 2020 23:26 UTC