By RICK JURGENS
Granite State News Collaborative
Hanover Terrace Health and Rehabilitation Center Administrator Martha Ilsley, left, talks with a resident of the Hanover, N.H., nursing home in 2016. Hanover Terrace has had no COVID-19 cases, and Ilsley says "everybody's wearing many hats right now" to care for residents. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)
COVID-19 has killed dozens of residents of New Hampshire nursing homes and set off a scramble to find and keep on the job the caregivers and other employees upon whom these elderly, disabled and vulnerable people depend.
The novel coronavirus has proven itself a cruel but selective killer. In New Hampshire, about 95% of the victims have been at least 60 years old, and three in five were over 80, according to the New Hampshire Health and Human Services Department.
The disease has been especially deadly for seniors who live, eat and socialize together in nursing homes and assisted living communities.
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