The COVID-19 rehabilitation pandemic | Zendy

Sarah De Biase | Zendy; Laura Cook | Zendy; Dawn A. Skelton | Zendy; Miles D. Witham | Zendy; Ruth ten Hove | Zendy

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The COVID-19 rehabilitation pandemic

Author(s) -

Sarah De Biase,

Laura Cook,

Dawn A. Skelton,

Miles D. Witham,

Ruth ten Hove

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afaa118

Subject(s) - pandemic , rehabilitation , covid-19 , medicine , isolation (microbiology) , scale (ratio) , health care , physical medicine and rehabilitation , disease , physical therapy , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economic growth , pathology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , economics

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the response to the pandemic are combining to produce a tidal wave of need for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation will be needed for survivors of COVID-19, many of whom are older, with underlying health problems. In addition, rehabilitation will be needed for those who have become deconditioned as a result of movement restrictions, social isolation, and inability to access healthcare for pre-existing or new non-COVID-19 illnesses. Delivering rehabilitation in the same way as before the pandemic will not be practical, nor will this approach meet the likely scale of need for rehabilitation. This commentary reviews the likely rehabilitation needs of older people both with and without COVID-19 and discusses how strategies to deliver effective rehabilitation at scale can be designed and implemented in a world living with COVID-19.

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