Assessing the distribution of elderly requiring care: a case study on the residents in Barcelona and the impact of COVID-19

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• dc.contributor.author Arvelo, Enrique
• dc.contributor.author De Armas, Jésica
• dc.contributor.author Guillen, Monserrat
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-14T09:47:41Z
• dc.date.available 2024-10-14T09:47:41Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description.abstract In this work, we establish a methodological framework to analyze the care demand for elderly citizens in any area with a large proportion of elderly population, and to find connections to the cumulative incidence of COVID-19. Thanks to this analysis, it is possible to detect deficiencies in the public elderly care system, identify the most disadvantaged areas in this sense, and reveal convenient information to improve the system. The methods used in each step of the framework belong to data analytics: choropleth maps, clustering analysis, principal component analysis, or linear regression. We applied this methodology to Barcelona to analyze the distribution of the demand for elderly care services. Thus, we obtained a deeper understanding of how the demand for elderly care is dispersed throughout the city. Considering the characteristics that were likely to impact the demand for homecare in the neighborhoods, we clearly identified five groups of neighborhoods with different profiles and needs. Additionally, we found that the number of cases in each neighborhood was more correlated to the number of elderly people in the neighborhood than it was to the number of beds in assisted living or day care facilities in the neighborhood, despite the negative impact of COVID-19 cases on the reputation of this kind of center.
• dc.description.sponsorship M.G. thanks ICREA Academia and the Spanish Ministry of Science PID2019-105986GB-C21. J.dA. thanks the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of the Government of Spain (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)) RTI2018-095197-B-I00.
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• dc.identifier.citation Arvelo E, de Armas J, Guillen M. Assessing the distribution of elderly requiring care: a case study on the residents in Barcelona and the impact of COVID-19. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Oct 15;17(20):7486. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17207486
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207486
• dc.identifier.issn 1660-4601
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/61389
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher MDPI
• dc.relation.ispartof International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020 Oct 15;17(20):7486
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2019-105986GB-C21
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/RTI2018-095197-B-I00
• dc.rights © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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• dc.subject.keyword Elderly population
• dc.subject.keyword Care system
• dc.subject.keyword COVID-19
• dc.subject.keyword Data analytics
• dc.title Assessing the distribution of elderly requiring care: a case study on the residents in Barcelona and the impact of COVID-19
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