The new challenge of geriatrics: saving frail older people from the SARS-COV-2 pandemic infection

Gemelli Against COVID-19 Geriatric Team… - The journal of nutrition …, 2020 - Springer
467 of breath, sore throat, and headache. In addition, patients may have also
gastrointestinal symptoms, with diarrhea and vomiting. Some patients may have taste and …

WHO statement–“Older people are at highest risk from COVID-19”: Should the hypothesis be corroborated or rejected?

R Ningthoujam, D Khomdram - Medical hypotheses, 2020 - Elsevier
Coronavirus COVID 19 has become a threat to mankind affecting millions of people
worldwide. United States, Italy and Spain has the highest number of Coronavirus cases as of …

COVID-19: a geriatric emergency

V Boccardi, C Ruggiero, P Mecocci - Geriatrics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The older Italian population is posing a challenge in the number of deaths for coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19). According to previous data from China, pre-existing health …

Coronavirus disease 2019

S Lin, R Kantor, E Clark - Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2021 - geriatric.theclinics.com
Beginning in late 2019, a cluster of infections by a novel coronavirus began in Wuhan,
China, and quickly spread to other countries throughout the world. Severe acute respiratory …

Older adults and Covid‐19: The most vulnerable, the hardest hit

T Powell, E Bellin, AR Ehrlich - Hastings Center Report, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Older adults in the United States have been the age group hardest hit by the Covid
pandemic. They have suffered a disproportionate number of deaths; Covid patients eighty …

Israel Ad Hoc COVID‐19 Committee: guidelines for care of older persons during a pandemic

AM Clarfield, T Dwolatzky, S Brill… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Early on, geriatricians in Israel viewed with increasing alarm the spread of coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID‐19). It was clear that this viral disease exhibited a clear predilection …

Interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches needed to determine impact of COVID-19 on older adults and aging: CAG/ACG and CJA/RCV joint statement

BA Meisner, V Boscart, P Gaudreau… - Canadian Journal on …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent state of public emergency have significantly
affected older adults in Canada and worldwide. It is imperative that the gerontological …

Improving the care of older patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

A Bianchetti, G Bellelli, F Guerini, A Marengoni… - Aging clinical and …, 2020 - Springer
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has led to a dramatic crisis of Health Care Systems worldwide,
and older people have been among the most disadvantaged. Specific recommendations …

Providing simultaneous COVID-19–sensitive and dementia-sensitive care as we transition from crisis care to ongoing care

M Canevelli, G Bruno, M Cesari - Journal of the American Medical …, 2020 - jamda.com
As of April 29, 2020, more than 3 million COVID-19 cases and 217,183 associated deaths
have been counted worldwide. 1 Entire national populations are still under restrictive …

ТЕОРИЯ И ПРАКТИКА СТАРЕНИЯ В УСЛОВИЯХ ПАНДЕМИИ COVID-19

AG Golubev, AV Sidorenko - Успехи геронтологии, 2020 - elibrary.ru
Никогда прежде в истории старение населения не было фактором развития эпидемий
в такой степени, как при текущей пандемии COVID-19 с ее резким сдвигом смертности к …