Geriatric Care and Related Challenges in Covid Era-
Mini Review Article

Amna Khan; Oluwasegun Afolabi Shoewu; Ahmed Abdullah; Precious Pedersen; Ibrahim Khalil; Shahbaz Khattak Haroon Ur Rashid; Muhammad Usman Sharif; Keron Akintola Ayodele Blair; Syeda Lubna; Damayanthi C Kulasena; Muhammad Shuaib; Nadeem Iqbal

doi:10.26717/BJSTR.2022.45.007214

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Geriatric Care and Related Challenges in Covid Era- Mini Review Article

Volume 45 - Issue 3

Amna Khan¹, Oluwasegun Afolabi Shoewu², Ahmed Abdullah³, Precious Pedersen⁴, Ibrahim Khalil⁵, Keron Akintola Ayodele Blair⁶, Shahbaz Khattak Haroon Ur Rashid⁵, Muhammad Usman Sharif⁵, Syeda Lubna⁷, Damayanthi C Kulasena⁸, Muhammad Shuaib⁹ and Nadeem Iqbal¹⁰*

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- ¹United Medical and Dental College, Pakistan
- ²Olabisi Onabanjo College of Health Sciences, Ogun State University, Nigeria
- ³King Edward Medical University, Pakistan
- ⁴Windsor University School of Medicine, Saint Kitts and Nevis
- ⁵Shifa College of Medicine, Pakistan
- ⁶American International School of Medicine, Georgetown Guyana, USA
- ⁷Khajabandanawaz Institute of Medical Sciences Gulbarga, India
- ⁸USA
- ⁹Royal Preston Hospital, UK
- ¹⁰Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute Lahore, Pakistan

Received: July 27, 2022; Published: August 05, 2022

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2022.45.007214

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Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a type of novel virus caused by COVID-19 infection, killed hundreds of thousands of people across the globe. Owing to the multiple medical comorbid conditions already prevailing in most of the geriatric age group, they are prone to be at risk for poor outcomes and dreadful illness from COVID-19. Safest way to provide necessary medical care to population amidst fear of spread of pandemic is telemedicine. This includes consultations made by video phone calls. This review aimed to probe this vital aspect in the current literature about the experience of delivery of geriatric primary care via telemedicine.

Keywords :COVID-19; Geriatrics; Health policy; Pandemic; Telemedicine