See if I can find more it was from a pathologist that was talking about the spread distance.
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It just got real for me - confirmed Next Door
- Thread starter Mad Mike
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Some good news MM. One of your 89 year old neighbours caught it and made it through 
www.cp24.com
'She's a fighter:' Markham family says 89-year-old has recovered amid COVID-19 outbreak
An Ontario man said he was relieved to learn that his 89-year-old mother, who is living at a Markham, Ont. long-term care home in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak, has recovered from the virus.
www.cp24.com
There are so many stories coming out of this with too many being tragic or worrisome. The 85 year old lady across the street is showing signs of Alzheimer's and it's unlikely she can stay in her home until this stabilizes. I don't know how long her daughter can take care of her and right now a home is scary.
Long-term care homes are locked down, I would be shocked if she could get in anywhere. Home care is even less available than in normal times. Some people are pulling their parents from nursing homes to keep them safe but there is no good solution. If you pull them you may lose the spot and they were in a home for a reason. Caring for a patient at home with severe dementia is not an easy task at the best of times.
I guess if things went really sideways, the family could try to get her admitted to hospital but I doubt even that is an option without a broken hip.
About the only positive thing you can say about this mess is it will both open up a lot of spaces in long-term care and likely remove quite a few people from the waiting list. It will be tragic, but sadly, with just signs of alzheimers, your neighbours were probably in for a very long wait for a spot prior to Covid. My cousin kept my aunt at home until she was pretty bad (dementia and falling) so she started on the critical waiting list. As many months passed, IIRC she got moved up to higher need lists three or four more times. How the hell are there four lists higher than critical? Would a person on the normal waiting list ever expect a call for a spot? I don't think so.
I don't know the daughter's situation and if she could take her mother in. That becomes a burden as things get worse. Hard to have have company. A couple of months ago the mother's house would have been in the million range. Now???
One difficulty in trying to help Alzheimer's patients is as they lose memory they can get confused and either withdraw and get upset. Friends are seen as strangers and get the deer in the headlight stare or worse.
It can be the exact opposite as well.
I just got off the phone with my older sister.
Background, they drove back from Florida a couple weeks ago and have been self-isolating at home, and their daughter (my niece), who lives nearby, has been dropping off groceries at the front door to keep them supplied. They're free to leave home as of tomorrow
But ...
My niece works at the local hospital. And ... they had a patient being treated for something else on a non-covid-19-designated floor, become symptomatic and test positive for covid-19. And ... that happened to be the floor where my niece works. Now half the staff on that floor is on isolation and being tested, including my niece. She's living in a camper-trailer on their rural property in order to keep separate from her family. This all happened a couple of days ago, and she's isolating until they get the test results.
Background, they drove back from Florida a couple weeks ago and have been self-isolating at home, and their daughter (my niece), who lives nearby, has been dropping off groceries at the front door to keep them supplied. They're free to leave home as of tomorrow
But ...
My niece works at the local hospital. And ... they had a patient being treated for something else on a non-covid-19-designated floor, become symptomatic and test positive for covid-19. And ... that happened to be the floor where my niece works. Now half the staff on that floor is on isolation and being tested, including my niece. She's living in a camper-trailer on their rural property in order to keep separate from her family. This all happened a couple of days ago, and she's isolating until they get the test results.
Confusion can breed anger as well.
I've seen someone who was mean with a vicious tongue turn into a big softy at the onset of dementia.
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