Robust aim for corralling the insidious lasting effects from the pandemic.
Action Plan from Biden Administration on Addressing Long COVID
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Ageism’s Toll in the Age of COVID
An expert of aging and ageism explains the impact of age discrimination.
Aging and Long COVID: Stopping Stigma with Concrete Strategies
Ageism not only affects daily life, but also life post-COVID—what follows are ideas for avoiding it when seeking medical help.
Considerations for Patients with Long COVID on Retirement and Disability
Long COVID symptoms are numerous but can be tough to diagnose, and to document for disability payment.
Shining a Light on Brain Fog
How brain fog functions and what can be done to ameliorate it.
In COVID’s Wake
Which illnesses most often follow Long COVID and how do they tend to affect older adults?
Long COVID: A Brief Overview
Older adults are most at risk of Long COVID and have a role to play in driving research forward on this complex condition.
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Inside This IssueCOVID: The Long Haul
Generations Today, vol. 43, no. 5 (Sept-Oct 2022)
Action Plan from Biden Administration on Addressing Long COVID
In late August we read of a British geriatrician having what was called a “bleak epiphany” about older adults who had recovered from COVID-19. Having treated a patient just six months prior for COVID, Dr. David Strain was pained to see the man back in the hospital...
Ageism’s Toll in the Age of COVID
A slightly edited version of this piece was published Sept. 1, 2022, in a post from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. What Is Ageism? And Why Is it So Important Now? We need to consider the immense power of ageism. I'll start with just...
Aging and Long COVID: Stopping Stigma with Concrete Strategies
Although COVID is receding from the public's consciousness, older adults are still being hospitalized and dying per week at numbers far greater than the general population. Even more concerning is that three-quarters of adults older than age 50 continue to have...
Considerations for Patients with Long COVID on Retirement and Disability
It is estimated that up to one in five adults who had COVID-19 are currently experiencing sequelae of SARS-CoV-2, also known as post-COVID conditions or Long COVID, defined as symptoms lasting three or more months after first contracting the virus. Symptoms can vary...
Shining a Light on Brain Fog
If anything positive is to come out of the pandemic it is that the spotlight is now on brain fog. Little attention has been paid to the patients with a wide variety of medical conditions who have experienced the debilitating nature of brain fog in the years preceding...
In COVID’s Wake
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that older adults were at high risk for becoming infected and for having worse outcomes, including higher rates of hospitalization and death from the virus. Multiple publications also reported that many patients had a...
Long COVID: A Brief Overview
In June 2020, shortly after the start of the pandemic, people recovering from infection with COVID-19, especially young women, began to call attention to a range of debilitating symptoms that lingered well past the acute viral illness. They described symptoms...