Keeping Elder's Healthy: COVID-19 Activities to Keep them Healthy, Taking Care of Them
Cheyenne Smith
Santo Domingo and Laguna Pueblo
Santo Domingo and Laguna Pueblo
In the story “Native American Identity” written by Perry G. Horse, it explains that us Indians are living in a white living system. It first describes how American Indian young people are not speaking their native language, and the author's grandmother says that “We may not be white people but indeed we are more like them,”. The author explains how many Native Americans are marrying non native families, going to universities, not practicing their native traditions, which seems that they are slowly losing their Native traditions. Many of the young generation are used to talking English since many schools are located outside their reservation and they were probably taught to speak English first.
Horse G. Perry “Native American Identity” New Direction For Student Services no. 109, Spring 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc Pp( 61-68).
Sharing one Skin
In the second story by Jeannette Armstrong “Sharing one Skin” the Okanagan people refer to the relationship to others by the words that means “Our one skin. This means that they share more than one place that they are everywhere. In the story it says that ´´I can't be separated from my place or my land. The author made it seem that she has a part of her everywhere she goes. In their language speaking to her other people she could describe what she is saying and they could know what she is saying and meaning. While many other people may not know what they are talking about and may want to know.
In the article "Age is not the only risk factor in Covid-19 the role of comorbidities and of long staying in residential care home´´ by M D´ascanio talks about how SARS-CoV-2 is more infectious in older people than younger people. In the long stay residential care homes many elderly people and people with disabilities, severe cardiovascular, neurological diseases live together in close contact to see the dynamic of the virus transmission. Studies have shown that they are more focused on very eldery people from the ages 80 and higher. They are trying to find why elderly people and very elderly people are more infected to develop a more severe form of diseases. Patients over 65 years old are diagnosed with Covid -19 from March 2020 to May 2020.
D’ascanio, M., Innammorato, M., Pasquariello, L., Pizzirusso, D., Guerrieri, G., Castelli, S., Sciacchitano, S. (2021). Age is not the only risk factor in COVID-19: The role of comorbidities and of long staying in residential care homes. BMC Geriatrics, 21, 1-10. doi:http://dx.doi.org.sfis.idm.oclc.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02013-3
Allo-priming as a universal anti-viral vaccine: Protecting elderly from current Covid-19 and any future unknown viral outbreak.
In the second article ´´Allo priming as a universal anti-viral vaccine: Protecting elderly from current Covid-19 any future unknown viral outbreak´´by Michael Har-Noy elderly adults respond poorly to antiviral vaccines. Healthy younger adults generally present with mild symptoms to viral infection and the elderly are slow to respond. Ederlys have a limited T-cells repertoire which inhabits their ability to develop viral specific adaptive T-cells. The protection for elderly people from the viral infection has an enormous economic impact on society. Medical and economic impact of pandemics will affect the elderly will be worse as the proportion of the adult population increases globally. There are urgent unmet needs to develop strategies to reverse the immunosenescence to develop methods which will provide protection of the elderly population from viral epidemics.
Har-Noy, M., & Or, R. (2020). Allo-priming as a universal anti-viral vaccine: Protecting elderly from current COVID-19 and any future unknown viral outbreak. Journal of Translational Medicine, 18, 1-11. doi:http://dx.doi.org.sfis.idm.oclc.org/10.1186/s12967-020-02363-3
In the article “Genocide of American Indians” by Leslie V. Tischauser explains how the Europeans discovered the new world. Christopher Columbus had settled in the new world in 1492, which caused many devastation to the Native Americans. Columbus and his people made four voyages between 1492 and 1510 each of the voyages many sailors brought new types of diseases with them. The common flu was a huge affect on the Native American babies and children. Thousands of Native Americans had died from defending their homeland from American settlers in the aftermath of the War of Independence. The congress had authorized the president to exchange land from the Native Americans in the beginning of 1831. In 1840 the Indian Removal was complete and it took place at Black Hawk War in Illinois, the Seminole War in Florida, and the march forcing the Cherokee from Georgia to the Indian Territory. Three thousand Native American women and children died on the Cherokee Trail of Tears.
Tischauser, Leslie V. "Genocide Of American Indians." * Pandemics: The Invisible Enemy, edited by Editors of Salem Press, Salem, 2020. Salem Online, online.salempress.com. Accessed 20 Feb. 2021.
In the second article ¨Epidemic and Pandemics: History¨ written by Mary Hurd gave us horrific descriptions of each epidemic and pandemic throughout the years. In 430 b.c.e the city of Athens had faced a four year epidemic known as the plague it had appeared during the Peloponnesian War. Reducing the Athenian population to 30-35 percent. In 1781-1782 a massive pandemic wave of the influenza had spread from Russia to Europe striking three fourths of the population in Europe. A second wave of influenza had struck in Russia again moving the disease worldwide by transportation of steamships and railroad travel. This pandemic affected one third and one half of the world's population which killed nearly 270,000-360,000 people in Europe. In the United States during 1981 AIDS had become a worldwide spread within ten years by the end of the century 25 million people had died during this pandemic. Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi were the most affected regions with 500 cases per 100,000 persons. The major epidemic and pandemics in history gave realization to understand that we are in need of clean water, antibiotics, vaccines, and quarantines. This information gave serious questions about more epidemic and pandemic in the future from standpoints of population shifts and growth, dense urban population in warm climates, mass migration, and the aging in younger population who are at risk.
Hurd, Mary. "Epidemics And Pandemics: History." * Pandemics: The Invisible Enemy, edited by Editors of Salem Press, Salem, 2020. Salem Online, online.salempress.com. Accessed 11 Mar. 2021.