Online Program Brings Pets To Wheaton Nursing Home

Wheaton IL

26 December, 2020

1:02 PM

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By Marissa Parra, CBS Chicago 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. 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. Read more at CBS Chicago