COVID-19 isolation and frailty

In the post-COVID-19 era, the saturation of health services may only be the tip of the iceberg in relation to the restriction-derived burden of frailty. During confinement, the diminished state of resilience in elderly people may have worsened all age-associated conditions, such as a mild high blood pressure, glucose intolerance, basal immune dysfunction, inflammaging, and mental liability with anxiety-depressive traits. The dynamics of “frailty” renders its transition to a worse level more common than improvement, and this COVID-19 pandemic may have spin the loop of a decline of decreasing functional ability, increasing frailty, greater risk of traumatic falls, and higher hospital admissions for fragility fractures in the near future. The dataset was used to write the opinion article "Consequences for the Elderly After COVID-19 Isolation: FEaR (Frail Elderly amid Restrictions)", which was published by the Journal Frontiers in Psychology in 2020. It has been also used for the research article "How SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Changed Traumatology and Hospital Setting: An Analysis of 498 Fractured Patients", published in 2021 by the Journal of Clinical Medicine.

在后新冠疫情时代，医疗服务饱和或许只是防疫限制所引发的衰弱负担的冰山一角。在封控期间，老年人的身体韧性水平下降，可能会加重各类年龄相关性病症，例如轻度高血压、糖耐量异常、基础免疫功能障碍、炎性衰老（inflammaging）以及伴有焦虑抑郁特质的精神易感性。“衰弱”的动态变化进程使其向更差状态进展的概率远高于改善的可能，而本次新冠疫情或在不久的将来加速形成这一恶性循环：功能能力逐步衰退、衰弱程度加剧、创伤性跌倒风险升高，以及脆性骨折患者的住院率上升。
本数据集曾用于撰写2020年发表于《心理学前沿》（Frontiers in Psychology）期刊的观点文章《新冠隔离后老年人的健康影响：FEaR（限制措施下的衰弱老年人）》。此外，本数据集还被用于撰写2021年发表于《临床医学杂志》（Journal of Clinical Medicine）的研究论文《SARS-CoV-2大流行如何改变创伤医学与医院场景：498例骨折患者的分析》。