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It Is Not Just Mortality: A Call From Chile for Comprehensive COVID-19 Policy Responses Among Older People.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:Provide a synthesis of the COVID-19 policies targeting older people in Chile, stressing their short- and long-term challenges. METHOD:Critical analysis of the current legal and policy measures, based on national-level data and international experiences. RESULTS:Although several policies have been enacted to protect older people from COVID-19, these measures could have important unintended negative consequences in this group's mental and physical health, as well as financial aspects. DISCUSSION:A wider perspective is needed to include a broader definition of health-considering financial scarcity, access to health services, mental health issues, and long-term care-in the policy responses to COVID-19 targeted to older people in Chile.

SUBMITTER: Villalobos Dintrans P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7454906 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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It Is Not Just Mortality: A Call From Chile for Comprehensive COVID-19 Policy Responses Among Older People.

Villalobos Dintrans Pablo P Browne Jorge J Madero-Cabib Ignacio I

The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 20210801 7

<h4>Objective</h4>Provide a synthesis of the COVID-19 policies targeting older people in Chile, stressing their short- and long-term challenges.<h4>Method</h4>Critical analysis of the current legal and policy measures, based on national-level data and international experiences.<h4>Results</h4>Although several policies have been enacted to protect older people from COVID-19, these measures could have important unintended negative consequences in this group's mental and physical health, as well as ...[more]

PMID: 32735013

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It Is Not Just Mortality: A Call From Chile for Comprehensive COVID-19 Policy Responses Among Older People.

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It Is Not Just Mortality: A Call From Chile for Comprehensive COVID-19 Policy Responses Among Older People.

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