Post-COVID sequelae and their influence on the lifestyles of older adults: A literature review

ABSTRACT

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers on the study of the variables post-COVID sequelae and their influence on the lifestyles of older adults. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document is to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2020-2021, achieving the identification of 763 publications. The information provided by this platform was organized using tables and figures, categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, a qualitative analysis was used to refer to the position of different authors on the proposed topic. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that the United States, with 209 publications, was the country with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions of that country. The area of knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of post-COVID sequelae and their influence on the lifestyles of older adults was Medicine with 636 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the period indicated above was the journal article, which represents 89% of the total scientific production.