The COVID-19 outbreak has brought challenges to societies around the globe, especially for some special communities. In this article, Qing Zhang et al reviewed some unique challenges the elderly and people with Alzheimer's disease face during the COVID‐19 pandemic and suggest approaches that could be taken from health care and social approaches to better handle this pandemic.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is an infectious disease that since its outbreak in December 2019 has become a global pandemic. COVID‐19 is caused by the previously unknown coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2. The elderly are the most vulnerable to COVID‐19, and have the highest mortality of the afflicted. Similar patterns have been observed in epidemics and pandemics throughout the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries. In this article, we review some unique challenges the elderly and people with Alzheimer's disease face during the COVID‐19 pandemic and suggest approaches that could be taken from health care and social approaches to better handle this pandemic, including living arrangement and community support, information access and public education, health care of age-related diseases, mental health issue during the pandemic and nursing and Alzheimer patients.

 

 

 

 

Article Access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mco2.4

 

 

                                               

Website for MedComm: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/26882663

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