Abstract
Objective: To analyze through a narrative review the impact of social isolation in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic for the elderly client with Alzheimer's disease and his family. Literature review: The elderly with Alzheimer's disease (AD) are vulnerable to disasters and crises due to their neurocognitive deficits and many neuropsychiatric symptoms. This is more evident during the COVID-19 pandemic, as elderly people with AD lost contact with family and friends, stopping their activities, becoming even more isolated and showing greater neuropsychiatric changes such as depression, anxiety, agitation, apathy, aberrant motor activity and stress, just as the family became more overwhelmed. Final considerations: Given the above, it was possible to analyze the impact of the coronavirus on the elderly patient with Alzheimer's and his family, noting that discussing this theme is extremely important, since due to the pandemic, the elderly with AD became even more vulnerable and the family was much more overwhelmed and shaken.