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A new state law promotes Alzheimer’s awareness and, its backers say, will help provide assistance to families impacted by it and other degenerative diseases. Local health care leaders and other officials gathered Thursday at Presbyterian SeniorCare Network’s facility in Oakmont to celebrate the Early Detection and Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s or
Dementia wards in Pennsylvania hard-hit during the COVID-19 pandemic Updated May 10, 2021; Posted May 10, 2021 A person enters The Birches at Newtown assisted living facility, Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in Newtown, Pa. The deaths at the home and many others across Pennsylvania highlight the dangers that residents with dementia faced during the coronavirus pandemic and a state oversight system that imposed few protections during the worst of the crisis. (Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)AP Facebook Share By Sean D. Hamill | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) â In the weeks before she died of COVID-19 in the dementia unit of a suburban Philadelphia personal care home, Barbara Demech often lamented about the Alzheimerâs disease that began gripping her mind a decade earlier. âSheâd say to me, âI just feel like somebody is in there taking over,ââ recalled her son, Mike Demech. âShe would say it often toward the end.â Like so many people in the throes of dementia, it was difficult for her and others in the âmemory careâ unit to take the most basic steps â like wearing a mask o...
By Sean D. Hamill and Pittsburgh Post-gazette • Published May 10, 2021 • Updated on May 10, 2021 at 2:21 pm NBC Universal, Inc. In the weeks before she died of COVID-19 in the dementia unit of a suburban Philadelphia personal care home, Barbara Demech often lamented about the Alzheimer’s disease that began gripping her mind a decade earlier. “She’d say to me, ‘I just feel like somebody is in there taking over,’” recalled her son, Mike Demech. “She would say it often toward the end.” Download our mobile app for iOS to get alerts for local breaking news and...
Dementia wards in Pennsylvania hard-hit during the pandemic SEAN D. HAMILL, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the weeks before she died of COVID-19 in the dementia unit of a suburban Philadelphia personal care home, Barbara Demech often lamented about the Alzheimer’s disease that began gripping her mind a decade earlier. “She’d say to me, ‘I just feel like somebody is in there taking over,’” recalled her son, Mike Demech. “She would say it often toward the end.” Like so many people in the throes of dementia, it was difficult for he...