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.
Programa Maior Cuidado: an analysis of hospitalisation effects.
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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.
COVID, war and older people in Ukraine.
Ukraine has a large older population: over 10 million people aged 60 or more, roughly a quarter of the total population.
OLDER PEOPLE, COVID-19 AND WAR IN UKRAINE: UNDER THE SIEGE.
I am a 72 year old Ukrainian, born in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. Most of my life I spent in Kyiv. For more than 20 years I was in charge of the UN Programme on Ageing.
“OS CUIDADORES TAMBÉM PRECISAM DE CUIDADO” – O CUIDADOR SOCIAL DE UM PROGRAMA COMUNITÁRIO COM PESSOAS IDOSAS (PMC) EM TEMPOS DE COVID-19 NO BRASIL
Fabiana da Cunha Saddi, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Poliana Carvalho, Quesia Nayrane Ferreira, Karla GiacominO Brasil conta com um programa pioneiro e internacionalmente reconhecido de cuidado domiciliar...
Indonesian government advises unvaccinated people aged 60 and over not to leave their homes for the next month
Today it was reported that national government minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan advised older people not to leave their homes until at least next month, due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant
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