{"id":7751,"date":"2020-03-31T02:47:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T02:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/coronavirus-tips-for-caregivers-of-elders-with-dementia\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T18:26:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T18:26:56","slug":"coronavirus-tips-for-caregivers-of-elders-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/coronavirus-tips-for-caregivers-of-elders-with-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Tips for Caregivers of Elders with Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most likely, dementia does not increase risk for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, just like dementia does not increase risk for flu. However, dementia-related behaviors, increased age and common health conditions that often accompany dementia may increase risk.<\/p>\n<p>For example, people with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and all other dementia may forget to wash their hands or take other recommended precautions to prevent illness. In addition, diseases like COVID-19 and the flu may worsen cognitive impairment due to dementia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/help-support\/caregiving\/coronavirus-(covid-19)-tips-for-dementia-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at alz.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most likely, dementia does not increase risk for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, just like dementia does not increase risk for flu. However, dementia-related behaviors, increased age and common health conditions that often accompany dementia may increase risk. For example, people with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and all other dementia may forget to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,148],"tags":[2577,2578,2565,2579,331],"age":[],"content-type":[],"persona":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10003,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751\/revisions\/10003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7751"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=7751"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=7751"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=7751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}