In “‘I’m Really Isolated Now’: When Elders Have to Fight to Coronavirus Alone” (March 19), John Leland of the New York Times wrote about older adults who are coping with the temporary closing of senior centers and other gathering places. It’s not only company and meals that they offer, but structure, said Ruth Finkelstein, Brookdale’s executive director. “The way we remember to do something is that it’s tied to something else,” she said. “When that gets disrupted, it disrupts when we eat, which disrupts our sleep, which disrupts whether we take our medications.” That disruption can lead to greater problems, she explained.
