Older people remain most at risk of dying as the new coronavirus continues its rampage around the globe, but they’re far from the only ones vulnerable. One of many mysteries: Men seem to be faring worse than women. And as cases skyrocket in the U.S. ...
Death at home: The unseen toll of Italy's coronavirus crisis
It took Silvia Bertuletti 11 days of frantic phone calls to persuade a doctor to visit her 78-year-old father Alessandro, who was gripped by fever and struggling for breath. When an on-call physician did go to her house near Bergamo, at the epicenter of the ...
Japan’s homeless at risk from coronavirus pandemic
Many of Tokyo’s homeless also have underlying health problems, making them particularly vulnerable as cases of COVID-19 continue to climb in the capital.
'They just sedate them': Coronavirus overwhelms Spain's care homes
As Spain struggles desperately to cope with almost 120,000 coronavirus infections, it barely has the strength to help its overwhelmed care homes and their elderly residents, singularly vulnerable to the respiratory disease. With hospitals stretched to breaking point, the elderly are being turned away, and ...
Elderly Japanese in Britain look to lift spirits despite strict curbs on movement
Japanese senior citizens in Britain are supporting one another as the coronavirus pandemic accelerates through the country and people's movements are restricted in order to curb the spread of the disease. Members of the Japan Association in the U.K., more than half of whom are ...
Isolation amid COVID-19 pandemic changes seniors' life in nuanced ways
One remembers the polio epidemic and the hardships of World War II. One is stoic about it all — because, he says, he is already "here past the welcome." A third, old enough to remember the aftermath of the 1918 flu epidemic, turns to ...
Lockdown: Nursing homes in Spain a vector for deadly coronavirus
Death arrived slowly at the nursing home where Chelo Megia works. Then it was everywhere. On March 11, a Wednesday, Megia still thought the Residencia Nunez De Balboa in central Spain, where she had been an auxiliary nurse for 15 years, might avoid the new ...
'All is well': In Italy, triage and lies for coronavirus patients
The fight against death pauses every day at 1 p.m. At that time, doctors in the intensive care unit of Policlinico San Donato phone relatives of the unit's 25 critically-ill coronavirus patients, all of whom are sedated and have tubes down their throats to breathe, ...
U.K. ramps up virus fight: No pubs and 12-week isolation for some
British authorities on Monday dramatically ramped up measures to combat the new coronavirus, urging all U.K. residents to avoid unnecessary contact with others and telling people in the most vulnerable groups to stay at home for three months. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said "now is ...
Britain set to isolate over-70s as coronavirus deaths rise to 35
Britain will isolate older people "within weeks" and force into quarantine anyone diagnosed with coronavirus, the government said as it stepped up measures that have so far been less stringent than elsewhere in Europe. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said people aged over 70 would be ...
Nearly 20% of Japan nursing care providers out of masks amid COVID-19 outbreak
Nearly 20 percent of nursing care service providers in Japan have run out of face masks, which have been in short supply in the country as the COVID-19 outbreak continues, a recent survey by a labor union has shown. Out of providers of home-visit nursing ...
Japan gets tougher on road rage and testing for elderly drivers
The Abe government on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to a bill that would impose harsher penalties for road rage incidents and institute measures aimed at reducing fatal accidents involving elderly drivers. The proposed changes to the road traffic law would oblige drivers aged 75 and ...
