The coronavirus has complicated the financial and practical care and assistance that families need to provide to ageing parents and relatives and heightened the need for new ways to assist them.
Older people most vulnerable to getting ill have been advised to self-isolate, while those in retirement villages or care homes have been denied physical contact with friends and family. ..
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