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If you are providing care to a loved one at home, this may feel like a daunting and overwhelming time, particularly if the person or people you care for are at higher risk during the COVID-19 outbreak. Depending on your age and health conditions, you may also share that risk. The information included here gives clear and accurate advice about what you can do to support those in your care, while also looking after yourself.
The Rapid needs assessment of older people in Kigoma, Tanzania contains the findings of an assessment of the needs of older refugees in Nyarugusu, Mtendeli and Nduta camps who have fled unrest in Burundi, together with observations and analysis by HelpAge's humanitarian team and sectoral advisers. The report aims to help all organisations operating in Tanzania, including humanitarian agencies, donors and cluster groups, to develop and implement inclusive programmes, and to support advocacy for the rights of older refugees.
COVID-19 - Recomendaciones para los centros geriatricos
This policy brief explores the implementation of the World Health Organization's Package of Essential Non-communicable Disease Interventions in Myanmar, looking at the challenges and how they can be overcome.
COVID-19 - Recomendaciones para comunidades y OPAs
COVID-19 - Mensajes clave para la incidencia FINAL
Edadismo, discriminacion por edad y derechos de las personas mayores en la respuesta a COVID-19
COVID-19 - Proteccion a las personas mayores en una pandemia
COVID-19 - Consejos y recomendaciones para personas mayores
Este documento proporciona orientación y asesoramiento para las residencias de personas mayores sobre coronavirus o COVID-19. Si bien las personas mayores en residencias son particularmente vulnerables al COVID-19, hay pasos que se pueden tomar para reducir su riesgo y garantizar que estén bien atendidos y respaldados. El personal de atención domiciliaria también debe ser atendido y debe tener información para protegerse a sí mismo y a los que están bajo su cuidado. El documento incluye información sobre comportamiento personal, las acciones a tomar dentro de las residencias, la interacción con el exterior, las responsabilidades de gestión, gobernanza y qué hacer si se sospecha que alguien tiene el COVID-19.
As the Coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe and dominates news headlines, humanitarian and development organisations are facing an unprecedented challenge to prepare and respond. We ask all those responding to the pandemic to consider explicitly its impact on older people. This Age International and HelpAge International briefing paper provides advice on how to respond to the specific needs and rights of older people, keeping the communities we work with as protected as possible from the impacts of the disease.
This document provides HelpAge International staff, network members and partners with key messages to advocate for the effective inclusion of older people in preparedness planning and ongoing responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.
