While shadowing a physician at a nursing center, we observed that the residents feel real joy when connected with friends & family.  Pandemic changed those connections - Due to Pandemic seniors in nursing center were forced to be shut inside, thus unable to contact their family and friends. 

"Isolation in the pandemic is hitting elderly people especially hard....." 2020 WSJ article.

"Restrictions/confinements, isolation/loneliness are top categories of stress amongst seniors" - study by Brenda Whitehead published in the Gerontologist.

We decided to make personalized handwritten cards and distributed those to the nursing centers as a way to remind them that we are with them - to bring them joy.