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D. Coppa

Being the Family Caregiver of a Patient With Dementia During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Lockdown

Background: Family caregivers of patients with dementia are at high risk of stress and burden, and quarantine due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may have increased the risk of psychological disturbances in this population. The current study was carried out during the national lockdown declared in March 2020 by the Italian government as a containment measure of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic and is the first nationwide survey on the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on the mental health of dementia informal caregivers.Methods: Eighty-seven dementia centers evenly distributed on the Italian territory enrolled 4,710 caregiver–patient pairs. Caregivers underwent a tel…

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Il soft law internazionale nel Diritto finanziario

The aim of this article is to offer a general overview about how the Globalization is changing the evolution of the National Public Financial Systems. In fact, Financial Law – either for expenditures or for revenues – is not more a domestic topic. According with the globalization of the economic and social relationships, the classical expending and taxing powers, nowadays, are not possible to be exercised under the sole sovereignty of National Parliaments and Governments. A lot of financial rules, finally adopted by the States, arrive to their legal systems through soft law instruments produced on international, public and even private, institutions. The analysis of this phenomenon is here …

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