Again, my mom was engaged and she was talking. She's not talking now. With many of the other residents, it was disheartening to watch those who were mobile and conversable. They are now less so than they were. They now need assistance with feeding. They need to be engaged, or they can't engage and you try to talk to them and they're confused, because they were also getting mixed messages.
During the lockdown, in my mom's home many of the residents were kept in their rooms 24-7. Even the ones who tried to get out of their rooms were constantly being told not to and being pushed back into their rooms. Once things started stabilizing and the residents were allowed to go out, they were petrified. They stayed in their rooms, and the staff would turn around and say, “Well, the residents don't want to come out.” They had been trained not to come out. They had so many negative messages that now they stayed in their rooms, but that just increases their isolation and their decline.