Elderly: Impacts and Concerns in Covid-19

Abstract

Every home has elderly persons, especially as hugely and densely in India. This makes the presence of elderly population in home during COVID-19 pandemic. The novel coronavirus has been found to reproduce the complications that aging brings to elderly people, and is found to be more fatal among elderly people with existing health problems. The central and state governments and the WHO are reporting that elders are more vulnerable to the COVID outbreak and prevention is better than the cure. Daily updates on new cases of COVID-19 and deaths related to the illness often include people of age 65 years and older. COVID-19 kills an expected 13.4% of patients of 80 years and older, related to 1.25% of those in their 50s and 0.3% of those in their 40s. The sharpest divide comes at the age of 70 years. Though 4% of patients in their 60s died; more than twice of that, or 8.6%, of those were in their 70s.