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… ...