The COVID-19 pandemic has affected older people in different degree around the world, causing destructive blows to their physical health, their mental health and their livelihoods. Even before the pandemic, reports showed that many older adults were already more socially isolated and experienced more...
However, the question of how older people actually fared during the COVID-19 pandemic has only been sporadically addressed. By exploring differences in older people's well-being during the first wave, this article aims to partly fill this gap. Research design and methods: The data analyzed in...
UNITED NATIONS, May 1 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that older people, like everyone else in the world, have the same rights to life and health amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "No person, young or old, is expendable. Older people have the same rig...
75 and older: 59% “We know that this virus is most likely to cause severe illness in the oldest people, with people over age 75 accounting for nearly half of all COVID-19 hospitalizations since last fall, and at least 44,000 deaths of people over age 65 directly due to COVID-19 la...
What is it that puts older people at increased risk from viruses like this? It's primarily thought to be due to changes in thehuman immune systemas we age. Your body's tools to fight off virus infections As you go about your life, your body is constantly bombarded bypathogens—the bacte...
Older adolescents also reported higher levels of depressive symptoms than adolescents of the same age before the pandemic. These results show the negative impact of the pandemic, especially on older adolescents, and the important role of maturity and some personality traits in predicting their ...
their grandchildren, visitors and external services (e.g., meal delivery, cleaning) were not allowed in assisted living facilities and nursing homes for a long time, and people were regularly warned when measures were introduced or relaxed to pay specific attention to older and vulnerable people....
there is little known about qualitative research as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and how it impacted older adults’ well-being [39]. In particular, little is known about how older people experienced the pandemic. Thus, our research question considers: How did older adults experience the...
However, publications on ageism during the outbreak have been mostly non-empirical and have concentrated on ageist beliefs directed towards older people. To overcome these limitations, we examined empirically the prevalence and the determinants of ageism towards older and younger people in the wake of...
29, 2020. Currently, SARS-CoV-2 presents an estimated R0 ranging between 2 and 3, which means that any infected individual may transmit the disease to other 2–3 people in a susceptible population (Madjid et al.2020), such as older adults (D’Adamo et al.2020) and those suffering from...