28.02.2022 | COVID-19 | Editorial
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Covid-19 and Virtual Geriatric Care
verfasst von:
Associate Professor Reshma A. Merchant, I. Aprahamian
Erschienen in:
The journal of nutrition, health & aging
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Ausgabe 3/2022
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Excerpt
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated technology adoption and changed the overall landscape of care delivery for older adults. Initially, virtual care was shown to be beneficial for older inpatients and emergency triage of patients with acute respiratory syndrome. Nonetheless, virtual care has now been shown to be useful for supporting frail and/or disabled older persons and caregivers in the community, nursing home residents, assessment and management of cognitive impairment, geriatric psychiatry patients, symptom control at the end of life, wound care, assessment of falls risk factors and virtual rehabilitation (
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