Changes in Place of Death of Older Adults during the Covid-19 Pandemic

A Retrospective Study from an Aging Country

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ID13628158
AuthorsSerdar Ceylan (0000-0001-5885-4023, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, corresponding author), Merve Güner (0000-0002-7417-5415, Hacettepe University), Merve Guner Oytun (Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey), Arzu Okyar Baş (0000-0002-1518-5939, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey), Zeynep Kahyaoğlu (0000-0003-3297-2800, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey), Çağlayan Merve Ayaz (0000-0003-2574-8683, Turkey), Cafer Balcı (0000-0002-1478-1106, Hacettepe University), Cafer Balci (Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey), Burcu Balam Doğu (0000-0002-4430-6146, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey), Mustafa Cankurtaran (0000-0002-8213-7515, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey), Meltem Halil (0000-0001-7597-8140, Hacettepe University), Meltem Gülhan Halil (Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey)
Year2023
Volume90
Issue4
Pages1963-1974
Publication date2023-01-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00302228231154361
PMID36715548
OpenAlexW4318481734
LanguageEN
References cited22

In the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the difficulties in patients' applications to health centres, changes have occurred in the places of death of older adults. It is aimed to investigate the change in the places of death of older adults in Turkey, which is one of the countries most affected by the pandemic. Patients admitted to the geriatric outpatient clinic of a university hospital from 01.01.2013 to 29.02.2020 were included. Place and date of death were recorded as hospital or out-of-hospital death. According to results, while the median age of those who died during the pandemic was higher than before ( p < 0.001) and during the pandemic, the hospital mortality ratio was higher than before. During the pandemic period, the hospital mortality ratio of older adults has increased in Turkey. This situation, which has occurred despite the increasing healthcare burden, can show the importance of the measures taken and robust health infrastructure

Cause of death · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · Health care · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Older people · Pandemic · Place of death · Retrospective cohort study · COVID-19 and healthcare impacts · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Demography · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Nursing · Gerontology

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