ArticleAging clinical and experimental research2022
Delay or postponement of medical care among older adults in the Netherlands at earlier and later stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Digital, Personalized Clinical Trials Among Older Adults, Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Directions for the Future: Aggregated Feasibility Data From Three Trials Among Older Adults.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- The relationship between healthcare access and change in health-related quality-of-life among the general population of five countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Framing the pandemic: Multiplying "crises" in Dutch healthcare governance during the emerging COVID-19 pandemic.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Postponed healthcare in The Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on self-reported health.Frontiers in health services · 2023Article
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Abstract
aimsThe aim of the current study was to compare cancellations or postponement of medical care among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic between 2021 and 2020.
methodsData of respondents aged ≥ 62 years were used from the longitudinal aging study Amsterdam (LASA), collected in 2020 and 2021, directly after the main COVID-19 waves in the Netherlands. A questionnaire assessed cancellations of medical care and postponed help-seeking behavior. Descriptive analyses were performed.
resultsOverall, cancellations declined from 35% in 2020 (sample n = 1128) to 17% in 2021 (sample n = 1020). Healthcare-initiated cancellations declined from 29 to 8%. Respondent-initiated cancellations declined from 12 to 7%. Postponed help-seeking remained around 8%.
conclusionsIn 2021, less cancellations were reported compared to just after the first wave of the pandemic in 2020, while postponed help-seeking remained the same. It is important to investigate how cancellations and postponed help-seeking can be prevented in future pandemics.
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