Covid-19: a call for mobilizing geriatric expertise

AIM: Covid-19 is a true gerontological pandemic, with frailty, multimorbidity and geriatric syndromes being of great importance. FINDING: There has been a lack of geriatrician involvement in planning and delivery of care for older people with Covid-19 in many arenas. Lack of mobilisation of geriatri...

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Autores principales: O’Hanlon, Shane, Dhesi, Jugdeep, Aronson, Louise, Inouye, Sharon K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8063189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33891278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41999-021-00500-9
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description AIM: Covid-19 is a true gerontological pandemic, with frailty, multimorbidity and geriatric syndromes being of great importance. FINDING: There has been a lack of geriatrician involvement in planning and delivery of care for older people with Covid-19 in many arenas. Lack of mobilisation of geriatric expertise has led to inconsistent policy responses and ageism. The pandemic has shown that medical education and health systems have failed to align training, resources, and systems with current demographic and health usage realities. MESSAGES: We must take the specific needs of older people into account to position ourselves to provide better care for this group during Covid-19 and beyond.
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spelling pubmed-80631892021-04-23 Covid-19: a call for mobilizing geriatric expertise O’Hanlon, Shane Dhesi, Jugdeep Aronson, Louise Inouye, Sharon K. Eur Geriatr Med Editorial AIM: Covid-19 is a true gerontological pandemic, with frailty, multimorbidity and geriatric syndromes being of great importance. FINDING: There has been a lack of geriatrician involvement in planning and delivery of care for older people with Covid-19 in many arenas. Lack of mobilisation of geriatric expertise has led to inconsistent policy responses and ageism. The pandemic has shown that medical education and health systems have failed to align training, resources, and systems with current demographic and health usage realities. MESSAGES: We must take the specific needs of older people into account to position ourselves to provide better care for this group during Covid-19 and beyond. Springer International Publishing 2021-04-23 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8063189/ /pubmed/33891278 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41999-021-00500-9 Text en © European Geriatric Medicine Society 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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