Three ways to keep in touch with older people when society starts

Social Distancing

After more than 45 days of closure, it is not surprising that many go crazy. But worse for adults: Visits are not only stopped by their children and grandchildren but there is further stress with the suspected suspicion that they will be urged to continue closing long after young people begin to return to work and the world begins to reopen.

In fact, the AARP Foundation has even compared this comparison: Prolonged social isolation, for those 50 and older, is "a lifetime of 15 cigarettes a day." Fortunately, some of the most advanced technologies offer both solutions to keep us connected and protect us from other criminals who take advantage of this situation.

• Health check. If you are worried that all worries are harming your loved ones, machine learning algorithms can analyze job data as part of the Wellness Alarm.com solution to give you exactly the information you were suddenly thinking about.

Do they open their medicine cabinets where appropriate, do they take prescription drugs? Have their sleep, diet, and (yes) bathing habits changed? Are they awake and in the middle of the day?

All this and more is done by connecting their home to yours through smart-home technology, with real-time smartphone alerts to let you know if something is wrong.

"You do not even know it exists, but it's here to protect you and let someone know if something goes wrong," said Margarete Pullen of Dallas, Texas, whose son was installed by her authorized service provider and a Wellcam two-way video camera.

• Film meetings. Most of us are just trying to find new ways to deal with the situation, Nicholas Christakis, a social scientist and doctor at Yale University, told the journal Science that he "urges us to suppress our deepest human and evolutionary desires for communication."

Google's new Netflix Party add-on allows friends and family to watch - and discuss video - movies together on their computers. You need a NetFlix subscription, but feel free to argue that Tiger King deserves all this and whether Carol Baskin really killed her husband. And unlike real theaters, not many people (if any) are physically present to complain when you make too much noise and eat popcorn.

Appar! Appar! Appar! No NetFlix subscriptions? With apps like FaceTime, Skype, Houseparty, and Zoom, it comes with a lot of evidence that social isolation does not need to be disconnected from society. Virtual mass is for groups. Lots of "fun hours" Lots of virtual lessons in the gym. They have all gotten angry, with an 80-year-old couple in Vermont who even lovingly touched Apple's FaceTime to meet and talk to each other after the man was placed in a nursing home during the epidemic.

After more than 45 days in lockdown, it's no surprise that many people are going a tad stir crazy, but it's far worse for seniors. Not only have visits from their kids and grandkids been suspended, but there's the extra stress that comes with a nagging suspicion that they'll be advised to remain on lockdown long after younger people begin trickling back to work and the world starts opening up again. In fact, the AARP Foundation has even come up with this dire comparison, prolonged social isolation for those aged 50 and older. Is the health equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Fortuitously, some of the niftiest technology offers solutions both to keep us connected and protect against some of the miscreants taking advantage of the situation. Health checks. If you are worried that all of the anxiety is harming your loved ones, your overall well-being, the machine learning algorithms that analyze activity data as part of alarm Dotcom's wellness solution can provide you with the very details you've suddenly found yourself obsessing about.

Do they open their medicine cabinet when they should to take their prescription, have their sleeping, eating and yes, bathroom patterns changed? Are they up and about during the day? All that and more is done by connecting their home to yours via smart home technology with real time smartphone alerts to let you know if something's amiss. You don't even know it's there, but it's here to protect you and let someone know if something does go wrong, says Marjorie Pullen of Dallas, Texas, whose son had the system installed by an authorized service provider for her and her husband, along with a welcome video camera with two way voice capability movie meet ups. Most of us are just trying to find novel ways to cope with a situation that Nicholas Christakis, a social scientist and physician at Yale University, told Science magazine, calls on us to suppress our profoundly human and evolutionary hardwired impulses for connection. Google's new Netflix party extension lets friends and family watch and video chat their way through a movie together on their computers. You'll need a Netflix subscription, but then you're free to debate if the Tiger King is worth all the hype and whether Carol Baskin really did kill her husband. Plus, unlike in real theaters, not many people, if any, are physically there to complain. If you're making too much noise, eating popcorn apps, apps, apps, no Netflix subscription with apps such as FaceTime, Skype, House Party and Zoom comes more proof that social distancing means social disconnecting, mass virtual dinner parties, mass virtual happy hours, mass virtual gym classes.

They've all become quite the rage, with one Vermont couple in their 80s, even touchingly using Apple's FaceTime to see and talk to each other after the husband had to be put in a nursing home that bars visitors during the pandemic.