Cognitive Rehab May Help Older Adults Clear COVID-Related Brain Fog

Cognitive Rehab May Help Older Adults Clear COVID-Related Brain Fog
Cognitive rehabilitation can also help patients manage the psychological component in cases of depression and anxiety.LightField Studios/Shutterstock
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Eight months after falling ill with COVID-19, a 73-year-old woman couldn’t remember what her husband had told her a few hours before. She forgot to remove laundry from the dryer at the end of the cycle. She turned on the tap at a sink and walked away.

Before COVID-19, the woman had been doing bookkeeping for a local business. Now she couldn’t add single-digit numbers in her head.

Judith Graham
Judith Graham
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Judith Graham is a contributing columnist for Kaiser Health News, which originally published this article. KHN’s coverage of these topics is supported by The John A. Hartford Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and The SCAN Foundation.
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