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Katie Blackley / 90.5 WESA The past year has been boring for 88-year-old Jan McGrath. The retired nurse lives with her husband, Bill, at Westminster Place, a licensed personal care home in Oakmont. McGrath said she spends a lot of time reading, mostly westerns and mystery novels. She also watches some TV. “I like Hallmark, cause when you watch Hallmark you don’t have to think,” said McGrath, who finds the news depressing, and misses her family. While the pandemic has caused people around the globe to experience isolation, depression and ennui, life at long-term care facilities has been particularly bleak. Strict and lengthy lockdowns were mandated within these communal settings, which are particularly vulnerable to coronavirus outbreaks. More than half of the COVID deaths in Pennsylvania have been among long-term care residents, the vast majority of whom are elderly or medically fragile.

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