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When the Pandemic Will Be Over: Lots of Hope and Some Concerns

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly threatened healthcare systems worldwide. The worst-hit population has been represented by older people with underlying chronic comorbidities, while children and adolescents developed mild or asymptomatic forms of the disease. However, certain medical conditions (i...

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Autores principales: Azzolino, Domenico, Spolidoro, Giulia Carla Immacolata, Mazzocchi, Alessandra, Agostoni, Carlo, Cesari, Matteo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36286219
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics7050116
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author Azzolino, Domenico
Spolidoro, Giulia Carla Immacolata
Mazzocchi, Alessandra
Agostoni, Carlo
Cesari, Matteo
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description The COVID-19 pandemic significantly threatened healthcare systems worldwide. The worst-hit population has been represented by older people with underlying chronic comorbidities, while children and adolescents developed mild or asymptomatic forms of the disease. However, certain medical conditions (i.e., obesity, respiratory, or neurological or immune disorders) may increase the risk for poor health outcomes even in young and middle-aged people. Beyond the direct negative effects of the infection, the pandemic posed several health challenges through an increase in psycho–social issues (i.e., anxiety, depression, fatigue, sleep alterations, loneliness, reduced assistance, and loss of income). Accordingly, the pandemic is negatively impacting the accumulation of the functional reserves of each individual, starting from early life. With the long-term effects of the pandemic to be seen in the coming years, clinicians must be prepared to manage such high clinical complexity of people they encounter, through the implementation of multidimensional and multidisciplinary interventions.
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spelling pubmed-96020262022-10-27 When the Pandemic Will Be Over: Lots of Hope and Some Concerns Azzolino, Domenico Spolidoro, Giulia Carla Immacolata Mazzocchi, Alessandra Agostoni, Carlo Cesari, Matteo Geriatrics (Basel) Perspective The COVID-19 pandemic significantly threatened healthcare systems worldwide. The worst-hit population has been represented by older people with underlying chronic comorbidities, while children and adolescents developed mild or asymptomatic forms of the disease. However, certain medical conditions (i.e., obesity, respiratory, or neurological or immune disorders) may increase the risk for poor health outcomes even in young and middle-aged people. Beyond the direct negative effects of the infection, the pandemic posed several health challenges through an increase in psycho–social issues (i.e., anxiety, depression, fatigue, sleep alterations, loneliness, reduced assistance, and loss of income). Accordingly, the pandemic is negatively impacting the accumulation of the functional reserves of each individual, starting from early life. With the long-term effects of the pandemic to be seen in the coming years, clinicians must be prepared to manage such high clinical complexity of people they encounter, through the implementation of multidimensional and multidisciplinary interventions. MDPI 2022-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9602026/ /pubmed/36286219 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics7050116 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36286219
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics7050116
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