The death certificate made everything worse. Seth Fischer was already angry: a physical feeling, an overwhelming internal buzz. He would go for runs, only to find himself passing the white bulk of ...

The death certificates may not specify the failure to thrive diagnosis, but we know that without connection, engagement and purpose, a person’s physical and mental health will deteriorate.

Reid received her father’s death certificate two weeks later, which listed his cause of death as “adult failure to thrive.” “I was so upset, I cried,” Reid recalled.

Seclusion and depression, whether caused by fear of contracting the virus or facility restrictions, has become such a problem among the elderly, death certificates now read cause of death as &#8220… ...