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Are Older People with Disabilities Neglected in the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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dc.creator Kuper, Hannah
dc.creator Shakespeare, Tom
dc.date 2021-08-06T11:48:17Z
dc.date 2021-08-06T11:48:17Z
dc.date 2021-04-21
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:48:13Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:48:13Z
dc.identifier Kuper, H. and Shakespeare, T., (2021) Are Older People with Disabilities Neglected in the COVID-19 Pandemic? Elsevier Ltd, The Lancet Public Health Journal, Volume 6, Issue 6, E347-E348. 21 April 2021 (accessed 5 August 2021) DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00077-3
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16784
dc.identifier https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(21)00077-3/fulltext
dc.identifier 10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00077-3
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198610
dc.description Older people have been a central focus during the COVID-19 pandemic, as more than 90% of deaths in the UK have been among people aged 60 years or older. Messages around social distancing and high vulnerability will resonate strongly with this age group. Less often considered is that many older people have disabilities—almost half (46%) of people aged 66 years and older in the UK.1 Having disabilities not only increases the risk of dying from COVID-19,2 but potentially also increases the adverse consequences of pandemic control, yet data on these dangers are scarce. In The Lancet Public Health, Andrew Steptoe and Giorgio Di Gessa3 have addressed this gap using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) to compare the emotional and social effects on older people with and without physical disabilities during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier Ltd
dc.relation Lancet Public Health Journal;Volume 6, Issue 6
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.rights Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
dc.subject Aid
dc.subject Health
dc.subject Rights
dc.title Are Older People with Disabilities Neglected in the COVID-19 Pandemic?
dc.type Article


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