Coronavirus, Fabrizio Starace (working group): “Hypothesis that half of all deaths in Europe refer to people in residential care”

The fact that this rate is high, in addition to the ISS data, is confirmed by the number of exposed relatives of deceased persons who are promoting various investigations in Lombardy and the rest of Italy. But Starace speaks of a hypothesis that would set an even worse scenario: “It seems that about half of Covid 19 deaths in Europe With regard to people in residential care conditions, if these data are confirmed, it should lead to a rethinking of social and health policies for these vulnerable groups. “

The extremely high number of deaths from coronavirus in nursing homes (Rsa) “I think it should lead to a rethinking of socio-health policies towards these particularly vulnerable groups – continues Starace – We don’t have to start from scratch or invent who knows what, just take some virtuous models already existing in different parts of Italy, unfortunately still marginal compared to the predominant approach (residential structures), and that we can summarize with the definition of health budget “. A formula withdrawn by Vice Minister of Health Pierpaolo Sileri this morning in a Facebook post.

Starace, director of the Ausl of Modena Mental Health Department, refers to the experiences carried out from the Casertano area. “If we approach the issue in personalized terms, considering the single older person with their history, their relationships, their context, he explains, we can imagine solutions that are not necessarily residential. In Campania we promoted extra-family locations 10 years agoextra-family adoptions, not only of the elderly, but also of the disabled, people with psychiatric problems, problematic adolescents. The reconstruction of a social and family fabric that is as ordinary as possible. gives very different results compared to being located in a residential context. It improves their quality of life and also costs less for the national system: more people receive assistance with the same figures. “According to Starace,” the concentration of unrest in one place creates greater unrest. The myth of how different it can be made invisible it’s just a myth. “