Grandparenting Goes Digital as Virus Keeps Older Adults Home

Grandparents are using digital solutions like e-mail and video-webcam calls to maintain communication and interaction with loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic, reports the Associated Press . Salt Lake City resident Debbie Cameron, 68, and her husband have had to socially distance themselves from their grandchildren. Some grandparents are replacing live chats with friends with Facebook conversations, or connecting with church groups through video-messaging apps like Marco Polo. "When you're in a time of crisis, you want to be with people you love, and we can't," admits retired Marylander Terry Catucci, 69. "I've run the whole gamut of the five stages of grief at any given day." Nevertheless Catucci, a recovering alcoholic, is coping, talking with her family and checking in daily with her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor.