Nearly 50% of all nursing home residents live with Alzheimer's or dementia.
With nearly half of all long-term care facility residents living with Alzheimer's or dementia, individuals with the disease have become one of the most disproportionately impacted groups from COVID-19 in the country.
In this June 4, 2017, file photo, President and CEO of Alzheimer's Association, Harry Johns, attends the Nashville Disco Party Benefiting Alzheimer's Association in Nashville. Johns says he believes current public health circumstances impact those with Alzheimer's more than other care home residents."For any resident that family contact is so important if someone is ill. But for Alzheimer's, people who have dementia, it is especially difficult because the connections to family can -- when someone has progressed -- keep them grounded," Johns told ABC News.
"I would go over there and give her her breakfast. And then I'd go back and give her her lunch, and then I also back to give her her dinner in the evening. And that's when I usually stayed a few minutes extra and I'd walk her around in her wheelchair and sing a song to her. And so I could then go from being her caregiver to being her husband again," he said.
"I know that I'm going to lose her someday. I mean I'm prepared for that. I think people who are taking care of someone with Alzheimer's, they start through the grieving process long before death occurs," he said.
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