Open Access<p>Covid-19 Infection in Older Adults: A Geriatrician’s Perspective</p>
Author(s) -
Ahmet Turan Işık
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical interventions in aging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.184
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1178-1998
pISSN - 1176-9092
DOI - 10.2147/cia.s260972
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , pandemic , perspective (graphical) , disease , geriatrics , gerontology , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , outbreak , artificial intelligence , computer science
The pandemic of the Covid-19 virus has become the main issue all over the world. In its current form, the disease is more severe in geriatric cases and individuals with chronic disease, even causing death. In older adults and atypical presentations, testing strategies for Covid-19, potential drug interactions of experimental Covid-19 therapies, and ageism are important issues in the course of the disease. Therefore, health-care professionals should be aware of these, and screening policies for Covid-19 should also include atypical presentations with or without classical symptoms of the illness in older adults. Furthermore, evaluation of individuals > 65 years of age from a geriatrician's perspective is very important, because Covid-19 is severe and fatal in seniors.