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AP PHOTOS: Spain's elderly suffer as virus tears safety nets
Read full article: AP PHOTOS: Spain's elderly suffer as virus tears safety netsMany received medical care from the local clinic, where doctors and nurses made house calls. For two weeks, an Associated Press photographer accompanied Barcelona’s visiting health care workers and emergency medical personnel as they tended to Spain’s home-bound elderly. As in similarly hard-hit Italy, Spain’s elderly aren’t usually being tested for COVID-19. Before the virus struck, Ribas’ nurses would be accompanied by social workers during their weekly visits to treat her bedsores. Sometimes the elderly refuse medical care until it’s too late, because they fear visiting medics might bring the virus into their homes.