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Purpose: The research and study are aimed at assessing how the elderly with chronic diseases, due to the new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) followings of chronic diseases are carried out, the existing outcomes and causes, the depressive conditions during this period and how they are affected by the pandemic. Method and method: The study, which is intermittent and observational, has been discussed with 226 participants aged 65 and over. Interviews face-to-face with participants answered research questions that included sociodemographic data, chronic disease tracking conditions and short forms of geriatric depression scale. In statistical analysis, the SPSS IBM 23.0 package program was used, p <0,05 meaning was accepted. The average age of the participants is 70 years; 53.5% (n = 121) are women and 46.5% (n = 105) are men. Married participants were 71.7% (n = 162) and primary school graduates were 30.1% (n = 68). All participants had at least one chronic disease. 55 of the participants (24.4 percent) were diagnosed with depression. Osteoarthritis and cerebrovascular events have been detected a decrease in post-pandemic tracking of all chronic diseases except for the pre-pandemic. The decrease in chronic disease traces after pandemic was available in all the sociodemographic data we studied. Result: The data from our study show that people aged 65 years and older who spend the pandemic process in more difficult conditions, who are subjected to restrictions, who are limited to conversations with their loved ones, who are lonely, who are affected by daily activities, depressed in an unmistakable extent, and the elderly in this process are unable to go sufficiently to chronic disease follow-up tests.

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