Providing Simultaneous COVID-19 –sensitive and Dementia-Sensitive Care as We Transition from Crisis Care to Ongoing Care

As of April 29, 2020, more than 3 million COVID-19 cases and 217,183 associated deaths have been counted worldwide.1 Entire national populations are still under restrictive measures for social distancing and self-isolation. Encouragingly, recent epidemiological data show that the epidemic curve seems to have entered into a plateauing/descending phase in most of the affected countries. Accordingly, national and local administrators have started reasoning about the post-emergency phase (or the so-called “phase 2”), that is, the set of measures that should allow the country to gradually return to a condition of “normality” after the lockdown is eased.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - May 20, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Marco Canevelli, Giuseppe Bruno, Matteo Cesari Tags: Editorial Source Type: research