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Death and dying are not dirty words : palliative care and the older person in the COVID-19 pandemic
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More than 1 year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the death toll remains staggering. Notably, older age increases the risk of developing severe illness and requiring hospitalization from COVID-19, and most deaths are among persons aged 65 years and older, with just under 50% accounted for by nursing home deaths.1
As these staggering figures continue despite vaccination development, society is being confronted with the limitations of modern medicine and the misperception that we can forestall death. COVID-19 has forced our hand. We need to think and talk about death and dying, particularly with our older patients, their families,and carers. This is an opportunity to
inspire change, as one geriatrician has noted:
. . . the outsized impact of COVID-19 on elders has
laid bare medicine’s outdated, frequently ineffective
or injurious approach to the care of patients who are
the planet’s fastest-growing age group and the generations most often requiring health care.2(p4)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/psyg.12746
Voir la revue «Psychogeriatrics, 21»
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