Pets
Online Program Brings Pets To Wheaton Nursing Home
For DuPage Care Center residents, the virtual visit with pets make their universe inside the building feel a little bigger and brighter.
December 25, 2020
CHICAGO (CBS) — Keeping the most vulnerable from the coronavirus means fighting another kind of sickness: loneliness. Restrictions make Christmas especially challenging for family members in nursing and senior living homes.
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CBS 2’s Marissa Parra found some new ideas that have tails wagging.
Nine months in to the COVID-19 pandemic, most are familiar with the capabilities devices have to keep people from feeling lonely in quarantine, but now computers are not just bringing families together. They are bringing pets to the loneliest Americans as well.