Saúde mental de idosos durante a pandemia de covid-19: uma revisão integrativa.

Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic among the world, people by the new SARS­CoV2, changed the way of life of society as a whole, generating a minor due to social isolation. In view of this, the study aimed, from an integrative literature review, on the consequences of the COVID­19 pandemic on the mental health of the elderly population. Thus, a search was carried out in the scientific literature. The data search was carried out in December 2021 through PubMed databases, virtual health library (VHL), regional portals­MEDLINE and Science Direct, to identify possible research that addressed the mental health of the elderly population during the pandemic (aa from 2020). As variables of interest collected from the articles were: title, year of publication, data collection period, data source, objective, sample size (N) to improve the mental health of the population. We included 20 articles with elderly people aged 50 years or older, most of them female. Depression and anxiety were the main psychological disorders observed, symptoms of loneliness, anxiety, anguish, anxiety and sadness due to the pandemic were also observed. Elderly people living in long­term institutions continue to suffer more from restrictive measures. Intervention measures such as internet access and physical exercise were reported to be able to mitigate the impacts of social isolation. Worldwide studies on mental health for a better understanding of how social isolation has affected the mental health of the elderly.