Long COVID and older people

V Mansell, SH Dykgraaf, M Kidd… - The Lancet Healthy …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Long COVID is a poorly understood condition, with a wide spectrum of effects on multiple
body systems and variable presentation in different individuals. Long COVID is of particular …

Long COVID-19: the need for an interdisciplinary approach

I Rodriguez-Sanchez… - Clinics in geriatric …, 2022 - geriatric.theclinics.com
Long COVID is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a condition that occurs
in individuals with a history of probable or confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] Facing dementia during the COVID‐19 outbreak

M Canevelli, M Valletta, MT Blasi… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
2. METHODS A telephone survey of a sample of patients attending the Center for Cognitive
Disturbances and Dementia, Department of Human Neuroscience, Sapienza University of …

Responding to a COVID-19 outbreak at a long-term care facility

CD Shrader, S Assadzandi… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article describes an outbreak of COVID-19 in a long-term care facility (LTCF) in West
Virginia that was the epicenter of the state's pandemic. Beginning with the index case, we …

Age, multiple chronic conditions, and COVID-19: a literature review

M Tisminetzky, C Delude, T Hebert… - The Journals of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Various patient demographic and clinical characteristics have been associated
with poor outcomes for individuals with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). To describe …

The COVID-19 pandemic and older adults: Institutionalised ageism or pragmatic policy?

S Harper - Journal of Population Ageing, 2020 - Springer
Akinola (2020) writing for the World Economic Forum similarly stated that “.. even before the
pandemic, reports showed that many older adults were already more socially isolated and …

[HTML][HTML] Breaking social isolation amidst COVID‐19: A viewpoint on improving access to technology in long‐term care facilities

M Eghtesadi - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In addition to large-scale initiatives that have been implemented to prevent international
spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, we should advocate for local …

[HTML][HTML] How does SARS-CoV-2 targets the elderly patients? A review on potential mechanisms increasing disease severity

A Smorenberg, EJG Peters, PLA van Daele… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Importance: Among COVID-19 cases, especially the (frail) elderly show a high
number of severe infections, hospital admissions, complications, and death. The highest …

Protecting and improving the lives of older adults in the COVID-19 era

EA Miller - Journal of aging & social policy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the lives of people throughout the world, either
directly, due to exposure to the virus, or indirectly, due to measures taken to mitigate the …

COVID-19 and crosstalk with the hallmarks of aging

S Salimi, JM Hamlyn - The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Within the past several decades, the emergence of new viral diseases with severe health
complications and mortality is evidence of an age-dependent, compromised bodily response …