Impact of COVID-19 pandemic of functional status in the elderly: scoping review
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elderly, functional status, COVID-19Abstract
Introduction: The aging process is accompanied by physiological and structural changes. Social isolation has a negative impact on the lives of the long-lived. Objective: To map the evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the functional status of the elderly. Methods: This is a scoping review, whose research was carried out until January 27, 2022, in five databases. 22 studies were included in this review, most of the articles were developed in Spain, Italy, Israel and Poland. As for the journals, they were specialized in the health of the elderly, as well as public health, general medicine and nutrition. The studies were of the cohort type, randomized clinical trials, clinical observations, exploratory, retrospective and prospective. 8741 people participated in these studies. Results: This review made it possible to map the main impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the functional status of the elderly, the vulnerability of this population to the disease was evident in the studies, it was identified that age is a risk factor for increased mortality and the elderly who had preserved pre-COVID-19 functional status had a better outcome in terms of hospital recovery as well as post-COVID.
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