2023, Editorial Ciencias Medicas. All rights reserved.Introduction: COVID-19 is a particularly frightening scenario for elderly adults, due to high morbidity and mortality. Designing actions for the comprehensive management of this disease is a public health priority in Cuba and a powerful instrument...
In northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, 101-year-old woman He Cui recovered from COVID-19 after 10 days of medical treatment. Her daughter Li Ti, described the recovery of the elderly woman, who has underlying conditions such as hypertension, as "miraculous". China has managed...
Besides, SARS-CoV-2 is likely to reach and trigger an inflammatory process directly in the nervous system. This review makes an update about research on the mental health of the elderly during the pandemic. Also, it discusses the vulnerability of these individuals in the face of stress and ...
On the one hand, psychotropic drugs consumption represents concomitant therapies in neuro-degenerative disorder treatments and in the elderly in general32,33, and given that COVID-19 excess mortality was disproportionately higher among the elderly, the latter is likely to drive a decrease in ...
As Palgi, Shrira, and Shmotkin (2015) have noted, the elderly may be vulnerable or resilient and may have developed sufficient coping skills from previous and ongoing traumas and loss. The purpose of this study was to measure the differential COVID-19 mental health impact, over and beyond...
that it’s a disease mainly in the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that.” –Bill Gates • After nearly three years, Bill Gates admits, correctly, that SARS-CoV-2 is as virulent as influenza. When other people stated that CV19 had a low Case Fatality Ra...
While there is currently limited evidence on the progression of infection in different age groups, we assumed that the proportion of asymptomatic infections in the elderly was half the proportion in the younger population, and that the death rate among symptomatic elderly cases was 9.7%, versus ...
Vaccinations against coronavirus will continue to be entirely subsidized by the government and the availability of oral antiviral treatments will be scaled up for elderly Australians. "We will continue to protect those most at risk, while ensuring we have the capacity to respond to future waves and...
Between the beginning of January 2020 and June 14, 2023, of the 1,134,641 deaths caused by COVID-19 in the United States, around 307,169 had occurred among those aged 85 years and older. This statistic shows the number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths in the U.S. from...
“Assume you have an elderly person who has hypertension and diabetes, and name your list of diseases that are potentially lethal. It might be very challenging to pick the one underlying cause of death,” said Dr. Joyce deJong, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners. “So...