Tamizaje en las personas mayores con dependencia de cuidados: clave en la estrategia para mitigar la pandemia por COVID-19

Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, older people have been the group with the highest mortality rate, especially thosewho require long-term care for having lost their functional ability. These people are living at home with their family orin a nursing home. It has been described that older people may develop an oligosymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection orparticular symptoms of the disease. Therefore, symptom-based screening is not the most recommended strategy in thisscenario. Since it is necessary to detect early cases in the elderly population, this research work analyzes and proposesthe best available alternatives for attaining such goal.