r/science • u/Wagamaga • Feb 03 '25

Neuroscience Scientists discover that even mild COVID-19 can alter brain proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease, potentially increasing dementia risk—raising urgent public health concerns.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/260553/covid-19-linked-increase-biomarkers-abnormal-brain/
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u/xteve Feb 03 '25

Also, in the US, the corporate facilities that house and care for residents with dementia pay too little and minimum-staffing requirements are not enforced. Poor conditions are a chronic problem.

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u/apcolleen Feb 04 '25

I had a friend who was compiling a report via email chains to his sympathetic but hamstrung boss. He created an email acct specifically for the task and once he had something that was actionable, he reported his coworker to the state health dept. They came in the next day. Right before my friend clocked in. One of the guys patient had a bone dry water cup, a soaked diaper full of dried poop, and clearly had not been given his meds despite it all being noted in his chart, and his lips were cracked and bleeding. My friend went up to the health dept people and handed them a peice of paper with the email address and the password and his name and phone number and gave them the run down, said he would cooperate fully, and then quit on the spot.