{"id":16991,"date":"2020-10-20T07:47:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T11:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16991"},"modified":"2020-10-20T07:47:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T11:47:24","slug":"older-covid-patients-battle-brain-fog-weakness-and-emotional-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16991","title":{"rendered":"Older COVID Patients Battle \u2018Brain Fog,\u2019 Weakness and Emotional Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLord, give me back my memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For months, as Marilyn Walters has struggled to recover from COVID-19, she has repeated this prayer day and night.<\/p>\n<p>Like other older adults who\u2019ve become critically ill from the coronavirus, Walters, 65, describes what she calls \u201cbrain fog\u201d \u2014 difficulty putting thoughts together, problems with concentration, the inability to remember what happened a short time before.<\/p>\n<p>This sudden cognitive dysfunction is a common concern for seniors who\u2019ve survived a serious bout of COVID-19.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/older-covid-patients-battle-brain-fog-weakness-and-emotional-turmoil\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) \u201cLord, give me back my memory.\u201d For months, as Marilyn Walters has struggled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-emerging-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16992,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions\/16992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}