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Nursing and Residential Care Facilities (RSA) and contagion-related fragilities in Italy

According to the statements of the WHO Regional Director for Europe, as of April 23, 2020, nearly 50% global Covid-19 cases have occurred in the European region—over 1.2 million—and over 110,000 people have lost their lives. Of these, nearly half were residents of long-term residential care faciliti...

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Autor principal: Rodeschini, Marta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9906122/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91061-3.00009-0
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description According to the statements of the WHO Regional Director for Europe, as of April 23, 2020, nearly 50% global Covid-19 cases have occurred in the European region—over 1.2 million—and over 110,000 people have lost their lives. Of these, nearly half were residents of long-term residential care facilities. Data in Italy plot a similar trend, which highlights the severe strain placed on the health care system by the spread of the virus. This study investigates the distribution of RSAs (Nursing and Residential Care Facilities) in Italy relative to the elderly population. It surveys a range of care models to reflect on their effectiveness in times of epidemics using official statistical sources that are cross-referenced via reflexive cartography. During the first wave of the Covid-19 epidemic (February–June 2020), RSA facilities were especially vulnerable to viral diffusion. This leads us not only to reflect on the effectiveness of their setup, but to question the very model of elderly care they uphold. The aim is to adopt strategies that may improve the lives of RSA patients and provide viable preventative tools against other possible epidemics.
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spelling pubmed-99061222023-02-08 Nursing and Residential Care Facilities (RSA) and contagion-related fragilities in Italy Rodeschini, Marta Modern Cartography Series Article According to the statements of the WHO Regional Director for Europe, as of April 23, 2020, nearly 50% global Covid-19 cases have occurred in the European region—over 1.2 million—and over 110,000 people have lost their lives. Of these, nearly half were residents of long-term residential care facilities. Data in Italy plot a similar trend, which highlights the severe strain placed on the health care system by the spread of the virus. This study investigates the distribution of RSAs (Nursing and Residential Care Facilities) in Italy relative to the elderly population. It surveys a range of care models to reflect on their effectiveness in times of epidemics using official statistical sources that are cross-referenced via reflexive cartography. During the first wave of the Covid-19 epidemic (February–June 2020), RSA facilities were especially vulnerable to viral diffusion. This leads us not only to reflect on the effectiveness of their setup, but to question the very model of elderly care they uphold. The aim is to adopt strategies that may improve the lives of RSA patients and provide viable preventative tools against other possible epidemics. Elsevier Inc. 2021 2021-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9906122/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91061-3.00009-0 Text en Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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