Saving lives through life-threatening measures? The COVID-19 paradox of infection prevention in long-term care facilities

The current SARS Cov-2 infection control measures have paradoxical effects. On the one hand, the lockdown measures help to protect vulnerable populations in particular. On the other hand, these measures inevitably have the effect that those who are to be protected not only become socially isolated a...

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Autores principales: Thiel, Ansgar, Altmeier, Dorothee, Frahsa, Annika, Eschweiler, Gerhard W., Nieß, Andreas, Sudeck, Gorden
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8215307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34154523
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11556-021-00265-x
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author Thiel, Ansgar
Altmeier, Dorothee
Frahsa, Annika
Eschweiler, Gerhard W.
Nieß, Andreas
Sudeck, Gorden
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description The current SARS Cov-2 infection control measures have paradoxical effects. On the one hand, the lockdown measures help to protect vulnerable populations in particular. On the other hand, these measures inevitably have the effect that those who are to be protected not only become socially isolated and are exposed to enormous psychological stress, but also break down physically due to inactivity. Thus, the activation that is omitted in the lockdown is not compensated by external reference groups, which also indicates that important conditions for healthy ageing are not given in long-term care facilities.
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spelling pubmed-82153072021-06-21 Saving lives through life-threatening measures? The COVID-19 paradox of infection prevention in long-term care facilities Thiel, Ansgar Altmeier, Dorothee Frahsa, Annika Eschweiler, Gerhard W. Nieß, Andreas Sudeck, Gorden Eur Rev Aging Phys Act Commentary The current SARS Cov-2 infection control measures have paradoxical effects. On the one hand, the lockdown measures help to protect vulnerable populations in particular. On the other hand, these measures inevitably have the effect that those who are to be protected not only become socially isolated and are exposed to enormous psychological stress, but also break down physically due to inactivity. Thus, the activation that is omitted in the lockdown is not compensated by external reference groups, which also indicates that important conditions for healthy ageing are not given in long-term care facilities. BioMed Central 2021-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8215307/ /pubmed/34154523 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11556-021-00265-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11556-021-00265-x
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