Dementia and COVID-19 in Chile, New Zealand and Germany: A Research Agenda for Cross-Country Learning for Resilience in Health Care Systems
Journal
Sustainability
ISSN
2071-1050
Date Issued
2021
Author(s)
Franziska Laporte Uribe
Oscar Arteaga
Walter Bruchhausen
Gary Cheung
Sarah Cullum
Alejandra Fuentes-García
Claudia Miranda Castillo
Ngaire Kerse
Ray Kirk
Marama Muru-Lanning
Rodrigo Alejandro Salinas Ríos
Lothar Schrott
Andrea Slachevsky
Martina Roes
Type
Resource Types::text::journal::journal article
Abstract
<jats:p>The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed existing gaps in policies, systems and services, stressing the need for concerted global action on healthy aging. Similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, dementia is a challenge for health systems on a global scale. Our hypothesis is that translational potential lies in cross-country learning by involving three high-income countries with distinct geo-political-cultural-social systems in Latin America (Chile), the South Pacific (New Zealand) and Europe (Germany). Our vision is that such cross-country learning will lead to providing adequate, equitable and sustainable care and support for families living with dementia during a pandemic and beyond. We are proposing a vision for research that takes a multi-disciplinary, strength-based approach at the intersection of health care research, disaster research, global health research and dementia research. We present some insights in support of our hypothesis and proposed research agenda. We anticipate that this research has the potential to contribute towards strengthening and transforming health care systems in times of crises and beyond.</jats:p>
Subjects
dementia
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covid-19 pandemic
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chile
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new zealand
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germany
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resilience
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sustainable health care systems
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disaster research
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strength-based
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community setting
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germany
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latin america
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new zealand
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pacific ocean
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pacific ocean (south)
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covid-19
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geopolitics
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health care
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learning