Active ageing and self‐care in COVID‐19

Studies show that the human coronavirus is an aggravating factor in the symptoms of diseases, such as obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, heart failure, and underlying diseases in older people, which increases the need for acute emergency care and hospitalization. [...]paying attention to prevent...

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Published in:Nursing open 2022-09, Vol.9 (5), p.2234-2235
Main Authors: Hatami, Zahra, Barkati, Hassan, Sarkhani, Naeimeh, Nikpeyma, Nasrin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aging
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Disease prevention
Exercise
Health behavior
Humans
Older people
Quality of Life
Self Care
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Summary:Studies show that the human coronavirus is an aggravating factor in the symptoms of diseases, such as obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, heart failure, and underlying diseases in older people, which increases the need for acute emergency care and hospitalization. [...]paying attention to prevention and care behaviors such as self-care helps to prevent infection and promote the health of these people (Jannat Alipoor & Fotokian, 2020). Older people’s self-care behaviours in COVID-19 are related to various factors such as previous experience of self-care in other diseases, family support and health care organizations, type of job, physical and personality characteristics of the elderly person, flexibility, positive emotions, vitality, hope and optimism (Kooij, 2020). Because new mutations of the disease appear in different mutations of the COVID-19 virus, so it is very important to pay attention to self-care behaviours. According to the WHO, active ageing is a process that provides maximum opportunities for the health, participation, safety, and lifelong learning of older people to improve their quality of life (Del Barrio et al., 2018).
ISSN:2054-1058
2054-1058
DOI:10.1002/nop2.1246