“…This imposes major challenges to health services, as it is directly related to severity of the disease in the acute phase, pre-existing chronic conditions, the patient's age, treatment measures taken during the first four weeks of infection and the time required to detect late symptoms, in addition to the absence of official protocols that standardize assessment and definition of this condition 3 . The aged population was considered by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) as a risk group for Covid-19 due to the inevitability of the immunosenescence process (progressive weakness of the immune system), which increases vulnerability to infections, chronic non-communicable diseases and the consequent increase in their morbidity and mortality 4 . As a result, when considering the consequences of Covid-19, aged people developed health demands that they did not previously have, which were eventually disabling and required specific care 5 .…”