Implications of COVID-19 for Older Persons: Responding to the Pandemic

Published 2020
Type Response guidance
Theme Accountability to Affected Populations, Age, Human Rights and IHL, Safety & Security
Language English
Pages: 21
Uploader Alexander Rosenfeld
Publisher(s) UNFPA
Sector(s)
Location(s) All Countries
Author(s) UNFPA
Disaster(s) Pandemic
Rights UNFPA
Source: Implications of COVID-19 for Older Persons: Responding to the Pandemic
Find more on these topics elderly, Covid-19, Older persons, vulnerability, surveillance and tracking, Community engagement, age based discrimination, health workers
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This document can also be found on the Official website of the United Nations Population Fund at https://www.unfpa.org
This technical brief was developed by the UNFPA Global Ageing Network to complement the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs' (UN DESA) Issue Brief: Older Persons and COVID-19, which emphasized the humanitarian imperative of
addressing older persons' specific needs within preparedness and response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This resource is part of a Collection of similar guidelines entitled "Needs of the Elderly Community in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic", and it is included in the series of Collections supporting response to Covid-19 outbreak. Collections are monitored daily and new content is added.