Dementia care during COVID-19

The Lancet

Volumn 395, Issue 10231, 2020, Pages 1190-1191

  Wang, Huali ^a,b   Li, Tao ^a,b   Barbarino, Paola ^c   Gauthier, Serge ^d   Brodaty, Henry ^e   Molinuevo, José Luis ^f   Xie, Hengge ^g   Sun, Yongan ^h   Yu, Enyan ⁱ   Tang, Yanqing ^j   Weidner, Wendy ^c   Yu, Xin ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY SIXTH HOSPITAL   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Alzheimer's Disease International   (United Kingdom)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^g CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^h PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^j CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; ELDERLY CARE; EXHAUSTION; FEAR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTENSIVE CARE; ISOLATION; LETTER; MEDITATION; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PERSONNEL; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM BEHAVIOR; PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELAXATION TRAINING; SARS-RELATED CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SOCIAL DISTANCING; STRESS; TELECONSULTATION; BETACORONAVIRUS; CAREGIVER; COMPLICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PANDEMIC; PSYCHOLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CAREGIVERS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 85082756898     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30755-8     Document Type: Letter

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