A Teenager Mistakenly Moved Into a Senior Living Complex. TikTok Loves It.
After living for a week in an apartment complex for older adults, Madison Kohout, 19, discovered why she was the youngest resident by decades.
Madison Kohout, 19, has shared on TikTok her experiences of moving into an apartment complex for older adults.Credit.Madison Kohout
May 3, 2021, 12:22 p.m. ET
When Madison Kohout, 19, moved into her new apartment complex, she didn’t think much of the average age of her neighbors.
After all, she had scored a nice apartment in the northeast Arkansas City of Piggott after moving there from Oklahoma. About a week in her new home, however, Ms. Kohout saw a sign outside the 10-unit complex that she hadn’t noticed before.
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They saw each other and wept.
They held hands and didnât let go.Â
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The pandemic kept nursing home residents and their loved ones apart for a year. Photographers for The New York Times were there when they finally reunited.
A daughter holding her motherâs hand. A son overcome that his 95-year-old mother survived the pandemic. A stoic family patriarch, suddenly in tears.
After a year of excruciating lockdowns, these were the scenes at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities as they began to open up this spring. Before the arrival of vaccines, one in three coronavirus deaths in the United States had ties to nursing homes and similar facilities.
5 Health Care Jobs on the Rise
Occupations in the industry are increasingly in demand because of an aging population and longer life spans.
Nurse practitioners, a fast-growing health care job, working with patients taking part in a Covid-19 vaccine trial in Houston in February. Credit.Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times
By Kerry Hannon
This article is part of our new series on the
, which examines changes in the medical field.
Economists at the Labor Department project that from 2019 to 2029 employment in health care in the United States will grow 15 percent, much faster than the average for all occupations, adding about 2.4 million new jobs during that span.