COVID-19 (eng. Corona virus disease-19) as a contagious disease has reached pandemic proportions and therefore, for the first time in recent history, extraordinary measures are being applied to combat the spread of this contagious disease. Measures that are applied are: ban on public gatherings, closure of educational institutions, ban on visits to homes for the elderly and infirm, wearing protective face masks, social distances. Social distance and a ban on entering nursing homes are measures that have severely affected the elderly who are accommodated in such homes. Because social support has beneficial effects on physical and mental well-being, reduces stress, and reduces feelings of loneliness, a ban on visiting homes leads to a lack of support from the family that people in foster care otherwise desperately need. The aim of this research is to determine whether the inability to make contact with your loved ones affects the increased feeling of loneliness in elderly people who are placed in a home. The research was conducted in the home for the elderly and infirm "Dom Hodošan" in which 65 home users participated. The results of the research confirmed how important physical contact with family and soci-alizing in the home is for elderly people who are placed in a home for the elderly and infirm so that they do not feel lonely. We can also conclude that loneliness greatly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.