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From the Global Platform for the Rapid Generation and Transfer of Knowledge on COVID-19 and older adults in low and middle-income countries:
COVID-19 and older people in China.
Until March 2022 there had been relatively few cases of COVID-19 in mainland China. Since then, parts of the country have seen a rapid surge in rates of infection, leading to emergency public health responses. China contains over 166 million people aged 65 or more. This webinar assessed the specific vulnerability of older people to the new pandemic situation.
Speakers:
Zhaorui Liu, Peking University Institute of Mental Health.
Francesca Chiu, University of East Anglia and the University of Copenhagen.
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Contact: Peter Lloyd-Sherlock p.lloyd-sherlock@uea.ac.uk
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Programa Maior Cuidado: an analysis of hospitalisation effects.
Programa Maior Cuidado (PMC) is a public sector intervention in Belo Horizonte, Brazil that provides lay carers to vulnerable older people for up to 20 hours per week.
Older refugees travelling from Ukraine to Germany.
Over five million Ukrainians have left their home country because of Russia’s military attack… More than half of all Ukrainian refugees went to Poland, while Germany has welcomed over 300,000.
Now it’s China’s turn. COVID-19, lockdown and older people in Shanghai.
On 3 April 2022 a strict lockdown was introduced in the Chinese city of Shanghai, in response to rapid increases in reported COVID-19 cases.
What went wrong with Hong Kong’s approach to getting elderly care home residents vaccinated?
“Rather than locking the elderly up to protect them, the government should have provided incentives to encourage vaccination,” writes Francesca Chiu.
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CALL FOR WEBINAR PROPOSALS
The weekly webinars have been a big success. We want to build on this by offering network members the opportunity to organise webinar sessions.
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WHAT DO THEY NEED?
INCONTINENCE PADS
NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS THAT CAN BE DRUNK AS SHAKES (MANY OLDER UKRAINIANS STRUGGLE TO CHEW)
SIMPLE MEDICAL ITEMS LIKE SUDOCREM
For more information, see https://www.helpage.org/what-we-do/older-people-in-ukraine/ and https://www.ageinternational.org.uk/donation/ukraine-appeal/#step1
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organisation, 5 February 2021.
“There is a disturbing narrative in some countries that it’s OK if older people die. It’s not OK… Those most at risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19, including health workers and older people, must come first. And they must come first everywhere.”