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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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.
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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
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Joe Pendergast, a resident of Juniper Village, a nursing home in Bensalem, Pa., with Kevin Birtwell, a wellness nurse manager there. All staff members at Juniper are required to be vaccinated.Credit.Kriston Jae Bethel for The New York Times
Published March 5, 2021Updated March 8, 2021
For much of the winter, Meryl Gordon worried about the people caring for her 95-year-old mother, who was rehabbing in a Manhattan nursing home after surgery for a broken hip.
“Every week they sent out a note to families about how many staff members had positive Covid tests,” said Ms. Gordon, a biographer and professor at New York University. “It was a source of tremendous anxiety.”
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The Paradise Next Door
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