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Clinical/Therapeutic
Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
17:30 - 19:00
Room
Channel 7
Session Description
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Proposed by the EPA section on Old Age Psychiatry -The COVID 19 pandemic quickly showed that the older population is a risk group with particular vulnerability. This was particularly true for patients with dementia. They had difficulty understanding the situation, observing distance rules and using masks appropriately. The situation is particularly difficult in nursing homes. In many countries the visit of relatives and also doctors in nursing homes has been banned. Nevertheless, the proportion of people who died in these institutions was high in all countries, for example in Germany up to one third of deaths. What consequences this has and has had for nursing homes, relatives, dementia patients and the people caring for them is to be discussed in greater depth in this symposium, with particular attention being paid to ethical aspects. It will also be discussed which preventive measures can be derived for the future.

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Symposium: COVID-19 Pandemia and the Demented Patients in Nursing Homes (ID 348) No Topic Needed

S0101 - Dementia and COVID-19 Pandemia: the Situation in Various European Countries

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Pre-Recorded with Live Q&A, Section
Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
17:30 - 19:00
Room
Channel 7
Lecture Time
17:30 - 17:47

ABSTRACT

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COVID-19 pandemia means a special threat to elderly patients in nursing homes. Dementia sufferers, who make up most of nursing home clients throughout Europe, have been in a critical situation. They bear a higher risk of delirium when affected by the virus. They often do not understand and easily forget, how to use a mask and keep the distance required. In many institutions the elderly were isolated and could not even take their meals together. And finally they do not recognize and even fear nursing staff and other personnel, which has to wear "protective clothes". Caregivers were told not to visit their loved ones any more.
Where available, modern techniques werde used. Skype and/or Zoom, Facetime telephone should replace face to face contacts. Some insitutions offered visitor rooms, where clients and visitors were separated by acrylic windows and microphones were applied. In some areas, physicians' visits were reduced to a minimum.
Just recently, regular testing of staff and clients in nursing homes has been introduced. However, this is consuming staff time, which - again - is taken from the patients. We discuss, whether the elderly and their caregivers could set their own preferences.

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Symposium: COVID-19 Pandemia and the Demented Patients in Nursing Homes (ID 348) No Topic Needed

S0102 - COVID-19 and Northern Italy Nursing Homes: Castles under Siege

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Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
17:30 - 19:00
Room
Channel 7
Lecture Time
17:47 - 18:04
Presenter
Symposium: COVID-19 Pandemia and the Demented Patients in Nursing Homes (ID 348) No Topic Needed

S0103 - COVID-19 and Dementia: The View of the Caregivers

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Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
17:30 - 19:00
Room
Channel 7
Lecture Time
18:04 - 18:21
Symposium: COVID-19 Pandemia and the Demented Patients in Nursing Homes (ID 348) No Topic Needed

S0104 - COVID-related Confinement Experience in People with Major Neurocognitive Disorders and Their Caregivers in New Aquitaine Region, France

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Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
17:30 - 19:00
Room
Channel 7
Lecture Time
18:21 - 18:38
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ABSTRACT

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The COVID-19 epidemic is an unexpected global event that has shaken up the organisation of care in France. The spread of the epidemic was limited thanks to the confinement of people from Tuesday 17 March 2020 to Monday 11 May 2020. However, this confinement led to a change in the care of vulnerable people, including people suffering from neurocognitive disorders (NCDs). The aim of this study is to question people suffering from NCDs and their family carers about their experiences during the period of confinement introduced in connection with the COVID-19 epidemic and on any physical and/or functional consequences.

METHODS: All persons whose memory consultations at CMRR Limoges were cancelled during the period of confinement (17 March to 11 May 2020) were contacted by telephone by the nurses or psychologists at CMRR.

RESULTS: The experience of the confinement episode as well as the deconfinement are studied. The survey records the clinical changes in patients and the medical/medical-social events that occurred during this period. The impact of the aids maintained and the place where people live is studied.

DISCUSSION: Confinement is an exceptional measure that makes it possible to reduce the risk of contagion in the event of an epidemic, at the risk of harmful consequences for people weakened by a NCDs. In the event of an epidemic episode in the future, this study could help to define the arrangements to be put in place to better protect people suffering from NCDs and their family caregivers.

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Symposium: COVID-19 Pandemia and the Demented Patients in Nursing Homes (ID 348) No Topic Needed

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Date
Mon, 12.04.2021
Session Time
17:30 - 19:00
Room
Channel 7
Lecture Time
18:38 - 18:58