IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v17y2020i10p3572-d360415.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

COVID-19 and the Fears of Italian Senior Citizens

Author

Listed:
  • Diego de Leo

    (Italian Psychogeriatric Association, 25121 Brescia, Italy
    De Leo Fund, 3139 Padua, Italy
    Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith University, Mt Gravatt campus, Brisbane 4122, Australia)

  • Marco Trabucchi

    (Italian Psychogeriatric Association, 25121 Brescia, Italy
    Department of Pharmacology, Tor Vergata University, 00133 Rome, Italy)

Abstract

Italy has been hit very hard by the severe acute respiratory syndrome—coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. This brief report highlights some of the peculiarities manifested by its older adult population, with particular reference to those living in nursing institutions and at home. Mortality data (as of 26 April) are reported, together with reactions to forced isolation, loneliness, and fear of contracting the disease, which represent big challenges for all, especially for frail elderly people.

Suggested Citation

  • Diego de Leo & Marco Trabucchi, 2020. "COVID-19 and the Fears of Italian Senior Citizens," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(10), pages 1-5, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:10:p:3572-:d:360415
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/10/3572/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/10/3572/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sara Staszak & Julia Maciejowska & Wiktoria Urjasz & Tomasz Misiuro & Andrzej Cudo, 2022. "The Relationship between the Need for Closure and Coronavirus Fear: The Mediating Effect of Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories about COVID-19," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(22), pages 1-18, November.
    2. Xin Li & Peixin Lu & Lianting Hu & Tianhui Huang & Long Lu, 2020. "Factors Associated with Mental Health Results among Workers with Income Losses Exposed to COVID-19 in China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(15), pages 1-11, August.
    3. Sergio Pandolfi & Luigi Valdenassi & Geir Bjørklund & Salvatore Chirumbolo & Roman Lysiuk & Larysa Lenchyk & Monica Daniela Doşa & Serafino Fazio, 2022. "COVID-19 Medical and Pharmacological Management in the European Countries Compared to Italy: An Overview," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(7), pages 1-22, April.
    4. Maria Esther Irigoyen-Camacho & Maria Consuelo Velazquez-Alva & Marco Antonio Zepeda-Zepeda & Maria Fernanda Cabrer-Rosales & Irina Lazarevich & Antonio Castaño-Seiquer, 2020. "Effect of Income Level and Perception of Susceptibility and Severity of COVID-19 on Stay-at-Home Preventive Behavior in a Group of Older Adults in Mexico City," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(20), pages 1-16, October.
    5. Lifeng Zhang & Roy E. Welsch & Zhi Cao, 2022. "The Transmission, Infection Prevention, and Control during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: A Retrospective Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(5), pages 1-15, March.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:10:p:3572-:d:360415. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.