Cognitive decline accelerated in over 50s during pandemic, study finds
The covid-19 pandemic brought a “sustained decline in cognition” to people in the UK aged…
Category: Geriatric medicine, COVID-19
Covid-19: Neglect was one of biggest killers in care homes during pandemic, report finds
The pandemic has disproportionately affected people living in care homes, who accounted for an estimated…
Covid-19: Government faces legal challenge over “failure to protect care home residents”
Two women who lost their fathers to covid-19 are legally challenging what they describe as…
Covid-19: Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is “likely” responsible for deaths of some elderly patients, Norwegian review finds
The Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine is “likely” to have been responsible for at least 10 deaths…
Covid-19: Isolating older people would be “age based apartheid,” says NHS boss
Segmenting and shielding the oldest and most vulnerable groups of people from covid-19 rather than…
David Oliver: Misusing the “criteria to reside” for hospital inpatients
We now face a potential second wave of the covid-19 pandemic and a backlog of…
Covid-19: Care homes in Belgium and Spain had “alarming living conditions,” says MSF report
A report into the global response to coronavirus outbreaks has heavily criticised the “alarming living…
Covid-19: Government failed to protect social care during pandemic, say experts
The covid-19 pandemic has exposed longstanding failures of successive governments to ensure that the social…
David Oliver: Was the prime minister justified in blaming care homes for poor covid-19 practice?
On 6 July the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, told journalists that “too many care…
Covid-19: MPs call on government to produce detailed plans for PPE in England
The government is failing to act with “sufficient urgency” in building up stocks of personal…
Covid-19: Continued outbreaks in care homes risk extending pandemic, say experts
The number of outbreaks in care homes and a lack of important public health information…
David Oliver: Preventing more deaths in care homes in a second pandemic surge
I hope my column last week showed that all of us had a part to…
David Oliver: Let’s be open and honest about covid-19 deaths in care homes
From the first recorded UK case to June 5, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)…
Covid-19: “Staggering number” of extra deaths in community is not explained by covid-19
Only a third of the excess deaths seen in the community in England and Wales…