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Originally Posted by haertig
My mom had dementia as well. She ended up with covid, as did about 95% of the people in her memory care facility. She lived through that with few complications, other than the forced isolation and quarantine those poor folks had to endure. That was awful. A few months after recovering from covid she had the shots. No side effects or complaints that she mentioned, but as Sirtel says, that is not fully trustworthy.
She died about 2-3 months after the shots, but it wasn't the shots that took her. It was the dementia and forced isolation. Today, there is still no visitation allowed in memory care facilities around here. Despite the fact that almost all residents (at my mom's place) already had covid, they have all been vaccinated now (for months), the staff has all been vaccinated, and us families have all been vaccinated. Even with masks, gowns, gloves and face shields (what they made me wear to empty out her room) you are still not allowed to see your family member. The vaccine is not the end. It is not even the light at the end of the tunnel. At least not for residents in memory care or nursing home facilities around here...
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Yeah. Most nursing homes here have had Covid as well, but my mom lives in a small and less known one and they managed to avoid the virus. For about 2-3 months they didn't allow visitors (from January through March), but as most of their clients have had their shots by now, they allow visiting on a case-by-case basis. Masks are required, but no gowns, shields or other such nonsense. Of course they only allow a couple of visitors at a time. There has been no general isolation or quarantine in the house internally, the residents can walk around in the house and converse with one another as much as they want. My mom seems to be in a good mood. As her memory (both long- and short-term) is extremely poor, she doesn't seem to miss her family members much. She lives in the moment, as a small child would.