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A year of isolation was hard on older adults with dementia. Families and experts wonder how much damage can be undone.

One caregiver described his wife’s last year as a “precipitous corkscrewing right into hell.”

Kim Boddy (right) can now visit her mother, Marguerite Forbes, 90, every day at Rydal Park in Jenkintown. Boddy said that her mother, who has Alzheimer's disease, declined during the pandemic.
Kim Boddy (right) can now visit her mother, Marguerite Forbes, 90, every day at Rydal Park in Jenkintown. Boddy said that her mother, who has Alzheimer's disease, declined during the pandemic.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer