I've had a lot of stuff going on, and, until recently, there wasn't much to talk about. Suddenly I have a whole load to talk about, but I'm having trouble getting to it.
Yesterday I was on a conference call with a committee organizing a conference on dementia, and someone working in an elder care facility remarked that all of the facilities have experienced a spike of families seeking admission for someone newly diagnosed with dementia. This is a consequence of the pandemic and the extreme isolation that many seniors have experienced.
As we discussed in Beating the Dementia Monster, social connection plays an important role in the onset and prevention of dementia. A little less than a year ago, I wrote about a friend who had died in a memory care facility, and I attributed it the isolation brought on by covid precautions. The increase in neurological issues among those isolated by the pandemic has caught the attention of researchers, and you can read some of what they are saying here.
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