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She's only 81, which is kind of young to be suffering that level of dementia. She has been diagnosed with Covid at least once. I wonder if that is related.
Risk increase for vascular dementia is 65.
My dad died of dementia when he was 83. He was in a nursing home for a year before he died.
It was before COVID.
I'm sad to hear that. Yes it happens but it's not really common from what I can tell. Currently theory about Alzheimer's is that it is also caused by sustaining viral infections earlier in life.
Alzheimer's is not the only form of dementia. My father did not have Alzheimer's, he had frontotemperal dementia.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/frontotemporal-dementia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354737
This can happen to anyone.