Challenges posed by Covid-19 to the health of people with disabilities living in residential care facilities in Romania

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12313596
AutoresLeyla Safta-Zecheria (0000-0002-4878-9755, Educational Sciences Department, West University, Timișoara, Romania, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume35
Fascículo5
Páginas837-843
Data de publicação2020-04-22
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDisability & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0968-7599 • E-ISSN: 1360-0508
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09687599.2020.1754766
OpenAlexW3020161778
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas1

In this contribution, I discuss potential risk to the health of people with disabilities in residential care institutions during the COVID-19 outbreak by looking at evidence from Romania. As an academic who has studied deinstitutionalization of services for people with disabilities in Romania, I argue that residential care institutions for people with disabilities are at risk of becoming sites for community contagion with COVID-19. These institutions are often located in remote and economically peripheral areas of the country that have been characterized by high rates of outmigration. Now, these are becoming areas of intense return migration. Community contagion in adjacent locations can easily spill over to residential institutions through care and health workers' trajectories. Once spread to residential institutions, COVID-19 has a high chance of adversely affecting the health of residents with disabilities. It is vital to ensure disabled people's health and wellbeing through adequate contagion prevention measures

Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Health care · Outbreak · Residential care · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Chronic Disease Management Strategies · Medicine · Gerontology