Providing quality end-of-life care for older people is one of our biggest challenges in this
new COVID-19 era. Advanced age, because of its association with a range of physical …

Mortality from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) increases with age, and those over 80
are particularly vulnerable (Verity et al., 2020). Most national data on COVID-19 will …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become a global public health
crisis that results in a great variety of challenges to the world, and the rapidly escalating case …

The term “long-term care settings”(LTCS) encompasses settings that provide a range of
services to meet older persons' needs for social, personal, and/or health care. These …

Like other developed countries, Canada has an aging population, although less than most
other G7 nations. Of a total population of 35 million people, 16.9% are aged 65 years or …

Background While the whole population is at risk from infection with the coronavirus (SARS-
CoV-2), older people–often frail and subject to multimorbidity–are at highest risk for severe …

Background: During the COVID-19 outbreak restricting measures may have affected the
provision of good end-of-life care for patients with and without COVID-19. Aim: To describe …

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 …

In 2020, COVID-19 hit the earth like a comet. The ground that it seared was already
pockmarked by systematic violations of human rights of older people (Doron et al., 2004; …

688 Journal of Applied Gerontology 39 (7) medical staffing or equipment supply to meet the
surge of demand. The high infection and mortality rates among older persons, relative to …