Elderly people

Figures from Sweden's Public Health Agency show almost half of all fatalities linked to coronavirus have happened in residential homes.

In this episode of Unreported Europe Euronews' Valérie Gauriat explores the devastating impact of the coronavirus on the continent's care home sector.

More than 100 organisations, unions and think tanks have published an open letter urging politicians across the UK to act to protect carers from what it describes as a ‘growing poverty crisis’.

In France, workers providing essential care to elderly and disabled people throughout the coronavirus pandemic have been battling a shortage of personal protective equipment. Euronews spent a day with one of them.

COVID-19 killed couple Alfonso Ariza and Cesarea Andrés almost simultaneously. Their daughter's grief has been heightened by the fact she couldn't say a final farewell.

One-in-three coronavirus-related death in Sweden has happened in care facilities for the elderly.

“Old people have to stay between four walls most of the time anyway, so not letting us go out at all is torture,” said pensioner Nina.

Data from five European countries shows that between 42 and 57 percent of deaths related to COVID-19 have so far occurred in nursing homes.

Connie Titchen, 106, was clapped out of Birmingham’s City Hospital on Tuesday after battling the infection for three weeks.

Elderly people have been hit the hardest by COVID-19 and are isolated from their families. Now young people are writing them letters with messages of love and hope.

When fighting broke out in April 2014, many people including health professionals fled the Luhansk and Donetsk Donbas regions. Those left behind were mainly elderly residents.

A digital care system has been the centrepiece of the Japanese strategy in looking after its ageing population. Medical data and technology are merged together to create more efficient healthcare.

Despite their age, the competitors demonstrated considerable stamina – the final relay race had been re-run several times before the athletes could be persuaded to sit down for tea and cake.

A village in Spain where two-thirds of its residents are aged over 65 has had a makeover to make it more elderly-friendly.

Tanaka lives in a nursing home in Fukuoka City in southern Japan and was born in 1903.

Footage shows an elderly pensioner shuffling across a busy intersection in southwest China, before the lights turn green leaving him stranded in the middle of traffic.

Ikarians follow a few rules to outlive other Europeans, which includes taking daily naps and eating a diet full of olive oil, honey, and wine.