A new study, controlled for age, has found that dementia patients are at an increased risk of contracting COVID-19 and, when they do, are at higher risk of hospitalization and death than non-dementia COVID-19 patients.
The study, published on Feb. 9 in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, reviewed health records of 61.9 million senior patients in the United States, of whom 15,770 had contracted COVID-19. Among these patients, 810 had various forms of dementia—including Alzheimer’s disease, post-traumatic dementia, and vascular dementia.
