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http://conacyt.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1000/1708| The fight against COVID-19: a report from the Italian trenches | |
| Marco Trabucchi Diego De Leo | |
| Novel Coronavirus | |
| Acceso Abierto | |
| Atribución | |
| https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610220000630 | |
| Our senior citizens are the most exposed to the consequences of the COVID-19. Frailty caused by comorbidities makes the advanced age of manypeople particularly vulnerable to the infection of this new coronavirus, the characteristics of which are stilll argely unknown to fellow scholars. What is clear is that older adults die more frequently than younge rage groups, everywhere in the world. In the Venetoregion, 36.3% of individuals who died were 85+years old, with the mean age of those who lost theirlives to coronavirus being 81 years. In the last days, Italian citizens were hugely impressed by watching on television along series of military trucks transporting the coffinsof dead people away from their home places because there is no more room in the close cemeteries or opportunities for cremation. The mental health of our seniors is particularly challenged: they feelscared by the news and aware that, if infected, they would not receive the same attention (e.g.intubation, a bed in resuscitation unit, etc.) of youn-ger individuals. Older adults with mental health conditions feel more frail and vulnerable than before: contacts with carers are now reduced to the minimum, with loneliness and abandon mentbecoming an excruciating reality. Checking on reg-ular assumption of drug therapies may become problematic; eating properly and keeping with per-sonal hygiene at a sufficient level can also be quite difficult. This may increase the sense of demoralization and despair in people. A few cases of suicide have been signaled by media, butin the present chaotic situation, it would not be surprising if similar fatalities would remain mostly undetected. | |
| International Psychogeriatrics | |
| 2020 | |
| Artículo | |
| https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-psychogeriatrics/article/fight-against-covid19-a-report-from-the-italian-trenches/DB6D6312BD703AAEB394BE259362D995 | |
| Inglés | |
| Epidemia COVID-19 | |
| VIRUS RESPIRATORIOS | |
| Versión publicada | |
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