Psychological intervention with elderly people during the COVID-19 pandemic: the experience of a nursing home in Italy

Italy has been the first European country to face the Covid-19 pandemic in all its dramatic presence. According to official national reports, based on the analysis of 32 448 patients died positive for Covid-19 in Italy; the mean age of people who died from this pandemic was 80 years.2 Furthermore, overall the 21.5% and the 59.7% of the sample presented respectively two or three comorbidities with the most frequent being cardiovascular diseases (ischaemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, stroke, hypertension), type-2 diabetes, dementia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.