Dementia and Covid risk

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People with dementia had significantly greater risk of contracting the coronavirus, and they were much more likely to be hospitalized and die from it, than people without dementia, a new study of millions of medical records in the United States has found.

Their risk could not be entirely explained by characteristics common to people with dementia that are known risk factors for Covid-19: old age, living in a nursing home and having conditions like obesity, asthma, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. After researchers adjusted for those factors, Americans with dementia were still twice as likely to have gotten Covid-19 as of late last summer.

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/health/covid-dementia-risk.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article 

 

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.12296    type on "free access"

Rescue mom

I wonder whether the difficulties in getting PWDs to recognize and take preventive measures, like masks, hand washing, distancing, etc.—even knowing a pandemic exists—plays into them catching it more (although the higher death and hospital rate is almost a different thing).

Of course caregivers watch for such things, but it’s hard. My DH will wear a mask and distance when I tell him, but if I turn away for a second, the mask comes off and he’s up close to whoever.