Alzheimers patients and pandemic isolation

This post is continuing with theme of Failure of US healthcare to treat older adults. Isolation for all older
Adults strongly associated with increased mortality but in patients with Alzheimer’s disease it appears to be even bigger problem! Imagine that your loved one is in nursing home and you can’t visit her! She is all alone and you can’t even get an idea if her care has been good or not. Until we
Start taking care of our elders our healthcare will stay at the level of 3rd world countries where it is now.

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