Dementia is predominantly a syndrome of the elderly, the group for whom covid-19 is most likely to be fatal
EVERY DAY Diane Evans , from her home in London, calls her 85-year-old mother, who lives on her own in Wales. Every day she asks if she is remembering to wash her hands regularly and to keep a social distance from other people. Every day her mother is perplexed by the question. Every day the facts of life during the coronavirus epidemic are explained to her yet again, with an heroic absence of exasperation.
The condition has a variety of causes. The most common is Alzheimer’s disease, accounting for between 60% and 80% of cases, but there are dozens of other types. And, though all kinds of people in all states of health can develop dementia, it does appear to be correlated with other conditions that make people vulnerable to infection. Those who are overweight, depressed, smoke, have high blood pressure or diabetes and do not exercise have a higher risk of dementia, as well as of physical ailments.
There are also, of course, apps for dementia. “Refresh Player” and “Refresh Studio”, from a tech firm called How Do I? offer “personalised memory support”, including videos on how to perform day-to-day tasks, such as run a bath or boil a kettle, which appear when a smartphone taps a sticker on the once familiar but now sometimes baffling object involved. Japan is pioneering the use of robotics in caring for the elderly.
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