A COVID-19-Dedicated Facility for the Care of Older Adults During a Health Emergency: An Italian Experience.

IF 4.7 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS

ACS Applied Bio Materials Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2022-08-11 DOI:10.1080/08959420.2022.2110809

Lucia Monici, Olivera Djuric, Anna Muraca, Camilla Verona, Eleonora Bergonzini, Francesco Venturelli, Marco Zanni, Massimo Vicentini, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Patrizia Tegani, Cristina Marchesi

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Abstract

Older adults living in long-term care facilities (LTCF) are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. We describe the clinical characteristics, the course of disease, and the care needs of 38 non-self-sufficient adults with COVID-19 in an LTCF specially set up for those who could not be discharged home or to a standard LTCF. Residents spent an average of 30.5 days in the facility (range 4-77 days). Most of them recovered and were discharged home or to their LTCF of origin. It seems feasible to set up dedicated facilities to treat and provide assistance in the activities of daily living to older adults with COVID-19.

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COVID-19 医疗紧急情况下老年人护理专用设施：意大利的经验。

居住在长期护理机构（LTCF）的老年人尤其容易感染 COVID-19。我们描述了 38 名患有 COVID-19 的非自理成年人的临床特征、病程和护理需求，这些人住在一家专门为无法出院回家或住在标准长期护理机构的人设立的长期护理机构。入住者在该机构平均居住了 30.5 天（4-77 天不等）。他们中的大多数人都康复出院，回家或回到原来的长期护理中心。为患有 COVID-19 的老年人建立专门的治疗机构并在日常生活中提供帮助似乎是可行的。

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ACS Applied Bio Materials Chemistry-Chemistry (all)

CiteScore

9.40

自引率

2.10%

发文量

464

期刊介绍： ACS Applied Bio Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of biomaterials and biointerfaces including and beyond the traditional biosensing, biomedical and therapeutic applications. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrates knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important bio applications. The journal is specifically interested in work that addresses the relationship between structure and function and assesses the stability and degradation of materials under relevant environmental and biological conditions.