Measures Taken by Romania to Protect Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors

  • Alexandra Dobre PhD student

Keywords:

COVID-19, emergency state, alert state, vaccination, older adults

Abstract

This paper was written as an synthesis of how Romania has handled its older adults' population during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The measures taken by the authorities can be classified as measures of preventing the spread and measures of eradicating the virus. The measures of preventing the spread of the virus have been taken during the state of emergency and the state of alert, from 14th of March 2020 until today.

The measures of eradicating the coronavirus have started to be taken as soon as the vaccines have entered the country.

This paper extracts the provisions regarding older adults from the normative documents emitted by the Romanian authorities and compiles them in order to see their evolution, how they were adapted to specifics of older adults and what modifications occurred after they were applied and their effectiveness was analyzed.

Published

2022-06-30