‘It’s Very Lonely Here’: Pandemic Rules Taking Toll on the Elderly

An elderly couple waits in a lineup outside a walk-in COVID-19 test clinic in Montreal on March 23, 2020. The Canadian Press/Paul Chiasson

Cheryl Wahpoosewyan has not seen her father, Roy, since March. He lives in a care home in Regina, Saskatchewan.

“We usually just talk over the phone. He usually calls me four or five times a day because I’m the oldest out of my siblings,” Wahpoosewyan tells The Epoch Times.