The impact of COVID-19 on the well-being and cognition of older adults living in the United States and Latin America

Babulal, Ganesh M.; Torres, Valeria L.; Acosta, Daisy; Agüero, Cinthya; Aguilar-Navarro, Sara; Amariglio, Rebecca E.; Ussui, Juliana Aya; Baena, Ana; Bocanegra, Yamile; Brucki, Sônia Maria Dozzi; Bustín, Julián; Cabrera, Diego M.; Custodio, Nilton; Diaz, Monica M.; Peñailillo, Lissette Duque; Franco, Idalid; Gatchel, Jennifer R.; Garza‐Naveda, Ana Paola; Lara, Mariana Gonzalez; Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, Lidia; Guzmán-Vélez, Edmarie; Hanseeuw, Bernard; Jiménez‐Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Rodriguez, Tomas Leon; Llibre‐Guerra, Jorge J.; Marquine, María J.; Martinez, Jean-Louis; Medina, Luis D.; Miranda‐Castillo, Claudia; Paredes, Alejandra Morlett; Múnera, Diana Paulina; Nuñez‐Herrera, Alberto; Oliveira, Maira Okada de; Palmer-Cancel, Santiago J.; Pardilla‐Delgado, Enmanuelle; Perales‐Puchalt, Jaime; Pluim, Celina F.; Ramı́rez-Gomez, Liliana; Rentz, Dorene M.; Rivera-Fernández, Claudia; Rosselli, Mónica; Serrano, Cecília; Suing-Ortega, María José; Slachevsky, Andrea; Soto‐Añari, Marcio; Sperling, Reisa A.; Torrente, Fernando; Thumala, Daniela; Vannini, Patrizia; Vila‐Castelar, Clara; Yañez-Escalante, Tatiana; Quiroz, Yakeel T.

doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100848

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“…It is also possible that the chronic stress experienced by lowincome older adults throughout their lives may have helped them be more resilient during the pandemic, able to positively reframe the situation, and cope with these unusually stressful times (108)(109)(110)(111). Some may have also turned to religion and spirituality as resources to manage their emotional and economic stress and find purpose and meaning during the pandemic (112).…”

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Practical Solutions to Address COVID-19-Related Mental and Physical Health Challenges Among Low-Income Older Adults

Bergeron

Boolani

Jansen

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Low-income older adults are disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this perspective article, we review the context in which low-income older people experience the pandemic and the mental and physical health consequences they have faced to date. Then, we offer practical solutions to help improve low-income older adults' sleep, physical activity, nutrition, and stress that require no or low financial commitment. We argue that governments, communities, and organizations should make greater efforts to promote healthy living for low-income older adults in times of health emergencies to ensure their ability to be universally adopted, regardless of income and resources.

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Section: Positive Consequences Of the Covid-19 Pandemic For Low-income Older Adultsmentioning

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Practical Solutions to Address COVID-19-Related Mental and Physical Health Challenges Among Low-Income Older Adults

Bergeron

Boolani

Jansen

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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“…The degradation of decent work conditions leads to many other problems of different orders for the population. Ultimately, this generates severe consequences for public health, such as an increase in the number of cases of anxiety and depression among workers, as highlighted [14][15][16]. As we have seen in previous clusters, the performance of the public health system was highly affected not only because of the health crisis, but also the COVID-19 pandemic leveraged an economic and social crisis without precedent [28,31].…”

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“…Nevertheless, this kind of job is generally developed in precarious conditions, without guarantees of labour rights, welfare benefits and, sometimes, without regulation. Concerns related to the financial situation of families, which generates significant problems of anxiety and depression, as exemplified in some recent studies [14][15][16][17]. Recent studies such as those by Alonzo et al [18] show the remarkable impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of vulnerable families.…”

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COVID-19 and decent work: A bibliometric analysis

Anholon

Rampasso

Dibbern

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BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Among these impacts, those related to the SDG 8 can be highlighted. Consequently, the literature has addressed aspects related to economic growth and decent work. OBJECTIVE: This article aimed to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on decent work according to the literature. METHODS: For this, a bibliometric analysis was conducted. Data from Web of Science were collected, and VOSviewer software was used to perform the analysis. RESULTS: Regarding the results, four main clusters that govern the subject were identified. A first cluster (identified in red) evidenced the consequences of the pandemic to the generation of informal work, increasing poverty and the impacts on gender issues. A second cluster (identified in blue) addresses mental health and stress issues, especially for nurses professionals who experience a situation in the COVID-19 pandemic. The green cluster focused on unemployment, precarious employment, and work conditions, which were highly related to coronavirus contagion. Finally, the yellow cluster evidenced the final consequences when there is a substantial public health problem. CONCLUSIONS: The results presented here can be helpful to researchers interested in the, as it allows a broad and condensed view of important information about a relevant topic for sustainable economic development.

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“…In addition, the high contagiousness of COVID-19 and higher risk of death and complications in the elderly population (Biswas et al, 2021;Tiruneh et al, 2021), may have caused a worsening of sleep quality, well-being, depressive, and anxious symptoms, since the beginning of the pandemic (De Pue et al, 2021;Gerlach et al, 2021). It is estimated that the damage has been especially profound in older adults in developing countries compared to those in developed countries (Babulal et al, 2021). Furthermore, most of the documents of the ministries of health from Latin American countries have not prioritized the strategies or policies that deal with emotional and mental problems during the pandemic, which could cause their impact on these aspects to be greater (Bonilla-Cruz et al, 2020).…”

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Effects of vaccination against COVID-19 on the emotional health of Peruvian older adults

Alarcón-Ruiz

Romero-Albino

Soto-Becerra

et al. 2022

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Background: COVID-19 vaccination may reduce anxiety and depression. However, the pandemic significantly impacted the elderly from low-middle-income countries. Therefore, we aimed to estimate the effect of vaccination against COVID-19 on the emotional health of older adults. Methods: We selected a nationally stratified sample of non-hospitalized adults aged 60 to 79 years who intended to receive the COVID-19 vaccine or had already received it during recruitment. We assess the fear, anxiety, and worry about COVID-19, general anxiety, and depression at baseline and after a month. We estimated the adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for each altered emotional health outcomes in those who had one and two doses, compared with those who were not vaccinated using multilevel logistic regression with mixed effects. Results: We recruited 861 older adults. Loss to follow-up was 20.8%. At baseline, 43.9% had only one dose of the vaccine, and 49.1% had two doses. In the analysis during follow-up, those who had two doses had less fear (ORa: 0.19; CI95%: 0.07 to 0.51) and anxiety to COVID-19 (ORa: 0.45; CI95%: 0.22 to 0.89), compared to non-vaccinated. We observed no effects in those with only one dose. Limitations: Inability to obtain the planned sample size for primary analysis. There is a selection bias during recruitment and a measurement bias because of self-reported vaccination. Conclusions: COVID-19 vaccination with two doses in elders improves the perception of COVID-19 infection consequences. This information could be integrated into the vaccination campaign as its beneficial effect.

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The impact of COVID-19 on the well-being and cognition of older adults living in the United States and Latin America

Cited by 28 publications

References 37 publications

Practical Solutions to Address COVID-19-Related Mental and Physical Health Challenges Among Low-Income Older Adults

Practical Solutions to Address COVID-19-Related Mental and Physical Health Challenges Among Low-Income Older Adults

COVID-19 and decent work: A bibliometric analysis

Effects of vaccination against COVID-19 on the emotional health of Peruvian older adults

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