Terminal care in oldest old dying from COVID-19 in the acute hospital
Janssens, W.H.; Van Den Noortgate, N.J.; Piers, R.D. · Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2022 · Heft 2 · S. 129 bis 134
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IntroductionA novel type of coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causing a severe acute respiratory infection known as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged and has spread globally since December 2019.The overall mortality of COVID-19 is estimated to be 1–3%, [16] where patients with multimorbidity and older patients seem to have a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 and a higher mortality [8, 15]. In Belgium, from 1 March 2020 until 28 February 2021, 82% of fatalities were older than 75 years and 53% older than 85 years [2].Dying from COVID-19 is often character…
