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Pro-active monitoring and social interventions at community level mitigate the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic on older adults’ mortality in Italy: A retrospective cohort analysis

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 epidemic in Italy has severely affected people aged more than 80, especially socially isolated. Aim of this paper is to assess whether a social and health program reduced mortality associated to the epidemic. METHODS: An observational retrospective cohort analysis of deaths...

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Autores principales: Liotta, Giuseppe, Emberti Gialloreti, Leonardo, Marazzi, Maria Cristina, Madaro, Olga, Inzerilli, Maria Chiara, D’Amico, Margherita, Orlando, Stefano, Scarcella, Paola, Terracciano, Elisa, Gentili, Susanna, Palombi, Leonardo
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8782360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35061710
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261523
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author Liotta, Giuseppe
Emberti Gialloreti, Leonardo
Marazzi, Maria Cristina
Madaro, Olga
Inzerilli, Maria Chiara
D’Amico, Margherita
Orlando, Stefano
Scarcella, Paola
Terracciano, Elisa
Gentili, Susanna
Palombi, Leonardo
author_facet Liotta, Giuseppe
Emberti Gialloreti, Leonardo
Marazzi, Maria Cristina
Madaro, Olga
Inzerilli, Maria Chiara
D’Amico, Margherita
Orlando, Stefano
Scarcella, Paola
Terracciano, Elisa
Gentili, Susanna
Palombi, Leonardo
author_sort Liotta, Giuseppe
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 epidemic in Italy has severely affected people aged more than 80, especially socially isolated. Aim of this paper is to assess whether a social and health program reduced mortality associated to the epidemic. METHODS: An observational retrospective cohort analysis of deaths recorded among >80 years in three Italian cities has been carried out to compare death rate of the general population and “Long Live the Elderly!” (LLE) program. Parametric and non-parametric tests have been performed to assess differences of means between the two populations. A multivariable analysis to assess the impact of covariates on weekly mortality has been carried out by setting up a linear mixed model. RESULTS: The total number of services delivered to the LLE population (including phone calls and home visits) was 34,528, 1 every 20 day per person on average, one every 15 days during March and April. From January to April 2019, the same population received one service every 41 days on average, without differences between January-February and March-April. The January-April 2020 cumulative crude death rate was 34.8‰ (9,718 deaths out of 279,249 individuals; CI95%: 34.1–35.5) and 28.9‰ (166 deaths out of 5,727 individuals; CI95%:24.7–33.7) for the general population and the LLE sample respectively. The general population weekly death rate increased after the 11(th) calendar week that was not the case among the LLE program participants (p<0.001). The Standardized Mortality Ratio was 0.83; (CI95%: 0.71–0.97). Mortality adjusted for age, gender, COVID-19 weekly incidence and prevalence of people living in nursing homes was lower in the LLE program than in the general population (p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: LLE program is likely to limit mortality associated with COVID-19. Further studies are needed to establish whether it is due to the impact of social care that allows a better clients’ adherence to the recommendations of physical distancing or to an improved surveillance of older adults that prevents negative outcomes associated with COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-87823602022-01-22 Pro-active monitoring and social interventions at community level mitigate the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic on older adults’ mortality in Italy: A retrospective cohort analysis Liotta, Giuseppe Emberti Gialloreti, Leonardo Marazzi, Maria Cristina Madaro, Olga Inzerilli, Maria Chiara D’Amico, Margherita Orlando, Stefano Scarcella, Paola Terracciano, Elisa Gentili, Susanna Palombi, Leonardo PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 epidemic in Italy has severely affected people aged more than 80, especially socially isolated. Aim of this paper is to assess whether a social and health program reduced mortality associated to the epidemic. METHODS: An observational retrospective cohort analysis of deaths recorded among >80 years in three Italian cities has been carried out to compare death rate of the general population and “Long Live the Elderly!” (LLE) program. Parametric and non-parametric tests have been performed to assess differences of means between the two populations. A multivariable analysis to assess the impact of covariates on weekly mortality has been carried out by setting up a linear mixed model. RESULTS: The total number of services delivered to the LLE population (including phone calls and home visits) was 34,528, 1 every 20 day per person on average, one every 15 days during March and April. From January to April 2019, the same population received one service every 41 days on average, without differences between January-February and March-April. The January-April 2020 cumulative crude death rate was 34.8‰ (9,718 deaths out of 279,249 individuals; CI95%: 34.1–35.5) and 28.9‰ (166 deaths out of 5,727 individuals; CI95%:24.7–33.7) for the general population and the LLE sample respectively. The general population weekly death rate increased after the 11(th) calendar week that was not the case among the LLE program participants (p<0.001). The Standardized Mortality Ratio was 0.83; (CI95%: 0.71–0.97). Mortality adjusted for age, gender, COVID-19 weekly incidence and prevalence of people living in nursing homes was lower in the LLE program than in the general population (p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: LLE program is likely to limit mortality associated with COVID-19. Further studies are needed to establish whether it is due to the impact of social care that allows a better clients’ adherence to the recommendations of physical distancing or to an improved surveillance of older adults that prevents negative outcomes associated with COVID-19. Public Library of Science 2022-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8782360/ /pubmed/35061710 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261523 Text en © 2022 Liotta et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Liotta, Giuseppe
Emberti Gialloreti, Leonardo
Marazzi, Maria Cristina
Madaro, Olga
Inzerilli, Maria Chiara
D’Amico, Margherita
Orlando, Stefano
Scarcella, Paola
Terracciano, Elisa
Gentili, Susanna
Palombi, Leonardo
Pro-active monitoring and social interventions at community level mitigate the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic on older adults’ mortality in Italy: A retrospective cohort analysis
title Pro-active monitoring and social interventions at community level mitigate the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic on older adults’ mortality in Italy: A retrospective cohort analysis
title_full Pro-active monitoring and social interventions at community level mitigate the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic on older adults’ mortality in Italy: A retrospective cohort analysis
title_fullStr Pro-active monitoring and social interventions at community level mitigate the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic on older adults’ mortality in Italy: A retrospective cohort analysis
title_full_unstemmed Pro-active monitoring and social interventions at community level mitigate the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic on older adults’ mortality in Italy: A retrospective cohort analysis
title_short Pro-active monitoring and social interventions at community level mitigate the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic on older adults’ mortality in Italy: A retrospective cohort analysis
title_sort pro-active monitoring and social interventions at community level mitigate the impact of coronavirus (covid-19) epidemic on older adults’ mortality in italy: a retrospective cohort analysis
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8782360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35061710
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261523
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