RESULTS From March 14 to April 11, 2020, 76 patients (median age = 90 (86–92) years; women = 55.3%) were admitted for confirmed COVID‐19. Of the patients, 64.5% presented with three or more comorbidities. Most common symptoms were asthenia (76.3%), fever (75.0%) and confusion and...
“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 last year,” Dr. Pree...
"No person, young or old, is expendable. Older people have the same rights to life and health as everyone else," the UN chief said at the virtual launch of a policy brief on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on older persons. Noting that the pandemic is causing "untold fear and s...
This cohort study examines how frequently older adults with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) present to the emergency department with delirium and
Niel Hens3,4 and Jacco Wallinga1,5 Abstract Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing measures were imposed to protect the popula- tion from exposure, especially older adults and people with frailty, who have the highest risk for severe outc...
V. (2022). Healthcare for older people in Central and South America. Age and Ageing, 51(5), afac017. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac017 Article Google Scholar Rojas, G., & Romero, R. (2022). Management and impact of interventions to reduce COVID-19 cases in Costa Rica. Pan...
Some people who develop COVID-19 experience persistence of symptoms. Here, we aimed to understand the factors associated with the severity and persistence of these symptoms in adults 50 years and older living in the community who had COVID-19. Using information provided by 23,757 participants fr...
Failure to engage and communicate clearly with individual members of CALD communities can put people's protective health behavior at risk, according to new Australian research funded by Flinders University. "Informing particularly older CALD adults about protections and precaution-taking, including mask we...
Researchers viewed how often all the COVID-19clinical trialsregistered inhttps://www.clinicaltrials.gov/from October 1, 2019 to June 1, 2020 did not include older people. This was determined by reviewing direct age-based exclusions or exclusions that preferentially affect older persons, such as ...
In addition to being a significant source of stress, the COVID-19 pandemic required older adults to drastically alter their behaviors and routines. People cope with stress in various ways; however, the pandemic was a unique situation tha... O Dugan,S Jennifer - 《Innovation in Aging》 被引...