Recovery of a 91-year-old COVID-19 patient with medical and psychological support

2020 ◽  
Vol 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Zhang ◽  
Chunrong Liu ◽  
Li Li
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Workers ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Elderly Men ◽  
Old Patients ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Psychological Assistance

Background:: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is designated a global pandemic. Elderly men with underlying medical conditions are more susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection and usually develop severe/critical illness,so we should pay more attention to the elderly. Objective:: Describes methods may help old patients with COVID-19 recover. Methods:: Report a case of a 91-year-old male COVID-19 patient in Haihe Hospital , Tianjin, China, survived after receiving supportive medical treatment and psychological assistance. Results:: In addition to medical interventions, psychological support may be needed to better treat COVID-19 patients including elderly ones. Conclusion:: Special care should be considered for elderly COVID-19 patients. Mutual understanding and support between patients and health-care workers are essential during this pandemic.

scholarly journals Psychological Assistance to Health Care Workers in the Conditions of Re-Profiling the Federal Hospital to Treat Patients with COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
M.A. Shurupova ◽  
R.A. Abdurahmanov ◽  
L.I. Esejkina ◽  
T.V. Kutejnikova ◽  
D.A. Popova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Psychological Service ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Psychological Difficulties ◽  
Psychological Assistance

In addition to physical mortality, the COVID-19 pandemic has a broad psychosocial and emotional impact on all population groups. Medical workers in the hospitals are experiencing unprecedented physical and psychological difficulties. Guided by the principles of providing professional psychological assistance to health care workers and based on the analysis of international experience, the “FCBN” of the FMBA of Russia organized several forms of psychological support. The purpose of this study was to investigate the methods and results of psychological support to health care workers during the period of re-profiling hospital for patients with COVID-19. The study sample includes 578 employees of the “FCBN” of the FMBA of Russia, covered during a weekly call; 25 of them participated in "social questionnaire"; 33 people completed the MBI and GAD-7 questionnaires; more than 30 people received personal or distant consultations. The results of questionnaires show that employees reacted to the new conditions adequately. The average values of indicators on the scales "emotional exhaustion" and "depersonalization" for the group fell within the normal range for medical workers in Russia. Investigation of effectiveness of different psychological methods shows that for supporting health care workers in the new condition, the most effective were personal consultations, and to identify the actual problems of work organization and building vertical communication between staff and management – weekly calls and ≪social questionnaire≫. In conclusion, our experience has shown the importance of maintaining the functioning of psychological service to help health care workers in an emergency situation for the health system.

scholarly journals Gendered Articulations of Control and Care on Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hungary

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katinka Linnamäki
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
System Of Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Unpaid Care ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Government

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Hungarian Fidesz-KDNP government´s discursive practices of control and care during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper researches the Hungarian government’s communication on the official Hungarian COVID-19 Facebook page during the first wave of the pandemic. Its aim is to answer the question how the Hungarian government articulated control and care to reinforce sedimented gendered division of care work and institutions of control to tackle the potential disruption of the system of care before the widespread vaccination of the elderly population was available in the country. The paper argues that the pandemic has allowed the government to exert control in areas, such as the crisis in the workforce market and health care system, as well as in the destabilized system of care work. The main finding is that in the material the government performs control over care work, whose intensified discussion during the pandemic could lead to a potential disruption within the illiberal logic on two different levels. First, physical care work related to immediate physical needs, like hunger, clothing, pain enacted by female shoppers, female health care workers and female social workers, is newly defined during the pandemic as local, family-bound and a naturally female task. Second, the government articulates care work, either as potentially harmful (for the elderly population and thus indirectly to the government’s familialist politics), or as vulnerable and in need of protection from outside influences (portrayed through the interaction of health care workers and “hospital commanders”). This enables the government to perform full state control over care workers through the mobilization of police and military masculinity and to strengthen and re-naturalize the already existing hierarchies between traditional gender roles from a new perspective during the pandemic. This state of affairs highlights the vulnerability both of the elderly population, on whom its familialism builds, and of the system of informal care work, which builds on the unpaid care work of female citizens, who paradoxically are also articulated as potential harm for the elderly and for the system.

scholarly journals Factors influencing regular physical exercise among the elderly in residential care facilities in a South African health district

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abiodun A. Aro ◽  
Sam Agbo ◽  
Olufemi B. Omole
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Exercise Facilities ◽  
Regular Physical Exercise

Background: Physical exercise plays an important role in healthy ageing, but the elderly do not engage in it regularly.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we sampled 139 residents of residential care facility. A questionnaire was used to obtain information on participants’ demography, health problems, nature, motivators and barriers to exercise. Chi-square test examined the relationship between participants’ characteristics and their engagement in regular exercise.Results: Of the 139 participants, the majority were females (71.9%), white people (82.7%), aged 70 years or more (70.5%), had at least one health problem (85.6%) and were overweight or obese (60.4%). Approximately 89.2% engaged in some form of physical activities but only 50.3% reported engaging regularly. Participant’s knowledge of the benefits of regular physical activities, opportunities to socialise, encouragement by health care workers and availability of exercise facilities and trainers promote regular physical exercise. Barriers to regular exercise included poor health status, lack of knowledge of the benefits of regular physical activities, lack of opportunities to socialise, lack of encouragement by health care workers and unavailability of exercise facilities and trainers. Factors that predicted exercise were age 60–69 years (p = 0.02), being Afrikaans speaking (p = 0.04) and completing high school (p = 0.03).Conclusion: A significant proportion of the elderly do not engage in regular physical exercise, and this behaviour is influenced by personal health status and systems-related motivators and barriers.

scholarly journals The Real Impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (covid-19) on the Pregnancy Outcome

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (05) ◽  
pp. 303-304
Author(s):  
Ana Katherine Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Influenza Pandemic ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
H1n1 Influenza ◽  
Clinical Impact ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Intrauterine Transmission ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
2009 H1n1

AbstractThe COVID-19 outbreak is increasing around the world in the number of cases, deaths, and affected countries. Currently, the knowledge regarding the clinical impact of COVID-19 on maternal, fetal, and placental aspects of pregnancy is minimal. Although the elderly and men were the most affected population, in previous situations, such as the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic and the Ebola epidemic, pregnant women were more likely to develop complications than nonpregnant women. There are unanswered questions specific to pregnant women, such as whether pregnant women are more severely affected and whether intrauterine transmission occurs. Additional information is needed to inform key decisions, such as whether pregnant health care workers should receive special consideration, whether to separate infected mothers and their newborns, and whether it is safe for infected women to breastfeed.

scholarly journals Lessons from Mass-Testing for COVID-19 in Long Term Care Facilities for the Elderly in San Francisco

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice K Louie ◽  
Hyman M Scott ◽  
Amie DuBois ◽  
Natalya Sturtz ◽  
Wendy Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Asymptomatic Infections ◽  
Significant Mortality

Abstract COVID-19 can cause significant mortality in the elderly in Long Term Care Facilities (LTCF). We describe four LTCF outbreaks where mass testing identified a high proportion of asymptomatic infections (4-41% in health care workers and 20-75% in residents), indicating that symptom-based screening alone is insufficient for monitoring for COVID-19 transmission.

scholarly journals Psychological support for health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 192 (24) ◽  
pp. E660-E660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molyn Leszcz ◽  
Robert Maunder ◽  
Jon Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Care Workers

scholarly journals Face Masks Are Beneficial Regardless of the Level of Infection in the Fight Against COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. e47-e50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mervin L. Burnett ◽  
Consolato M. Sergi
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Face Mask ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
Widespread Implementation ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Respiratory Droplets

ABSTRACTCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is currently a global pandemic that has affected over 7 million people worldwide, resulting in over 400,000 deaths. In the past 20 years, they have been several viral epidemics that were primarily transmitted by respiratory droplets. The use of face masks is proven to be effective in protecting health-care workers as they perform their duties. Still, there is limited evidence about whether the widespread use of face mask would be very useful in protecting the general population. This study aimed to conduct a review to determine if face masks would be beneficial in the general population as a means of reducing the spread of COVID-19. The widespread implementation of wearing face masks by the general population is challenging due to a variety of factors. However, the extensive use of cloth masks in conjunction with other preventative measures such as social distancing and handwashing can potentially reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19.

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