Dementia and COVID-19 in Chile, New Zealand and Germany: A Research Agenda for Cross-Country Learning for Resilience in Health Care Systems

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 and Martina Roes
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Franziska Laporte Uribe: Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V. (DZNE) site Witten, 58453 Witten, Germany
Oscar Arteaga: Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8380453, Chile
Walter Bruchhausen: Institute for Hygiene and Public Health, University Hospital Bonn (UKB), 53127 Bonn, Germany
Gary Cheung: Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1023, New Zealand
Sarah Cullum: Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1023, New Zealand
Alejandra Fuentes-García: Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8380453, Chile
Claudia Miranda Castillo: Millennium Institute for Research in Depression and Personality, Faculty of Nursing, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago 7550196, Chile
Ngaire Kerse: Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland 1023, New Zealand
Ray Kirk: School of Health Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Marama Muru-Lanning: James Henare Māori Research Centre, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Rodrigo Alejandro Salinas Ríos: Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8380453, Chile
Lothar Schrott: Department of Geography, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
Andrea Slachevsky: Geroscience Center for Brain Health and Metabolism (GERO), Santiago 7500922, Chile
Martina Roes: Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V. (DZNE) site Witten, 58453 Witten, Germany

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 18, 1-20

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: dementia; COVID-19 pandemic; Chile; New Zealand; Germany; resilience; sustainable health care systems; disaster research; strength-based; community setting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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