Local resident calls for end of nursing home visitation restriction

  • Diane and Fred Akers during happier times. The former University of Texas football coach is now isolated due to the COVID-19 pandemic in a local memory care center, away from his wife, who is calling on the state to allow primary caregivers back into nursing facilities. Contributed
    Diane and Fred Akers during happier times. The former University of Texas football coach is now isolated due to the COVID-19 pandemic in a local memory care center, away from his wife, who is calling on the state to allow primary caregivers back into nursing facilities. Contributed
Diane Akers has been by the rock by the side of her husband, former University of Texas football coach Fred Akers, for most of her adult life. At his greatest time of need — as he sits alone in a memory care center, suffering from dementia and isolated from loved ones due to the COVID-19 pandemic — she cannot be the one place she wants to be. “As a result of this Covid dictate, I am no longer…

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