Health and sociodemographic determinants of excess mortality in Spanish nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a 2-year prospective longitudinal study
Escribà-Salvans, A.; Jerez-Roig, J.; Farrés-Godayol, P.; Bezerra de Souza, D.L.; Skelton, D.A.; Minobes-Molina, E. · Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2024 · Heft 6 · S. 459 bis 466
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IntroductionThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began to have a major impact on society in 2019 [1] having unprecedented consequences on global health and economic systems.In developed European countries with a very high older population the COVID-19 mortality was 83.7% for people > 70 years and 16.2% for people younger than 69 years in 2020 [2] with a higher prevalence of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes (NH) [3]. Health problems and geriatric syndromes associated with ageing also determined the risk of mortality [4,5,6,7,8,9].At the beginning of the pandemic Spain had a total of 326,613 people ins…
