COVID-19 and Older Adults (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bonifas, Robin P.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the impact of the pandemic on the older population and how gerontological social workers can effectively intervene to ensure a more equitable approach to service delivery. It details the various ways COVID-19 has touched the lives of older adults and their caregivers across diverse countries including Italy, China, Nigeria, and the United States. Readers of this book can expect comprehensive attention to pandemic issues in an international gerontological social work context.

This edited collection will greatly interest students, academics and researchers in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in the sociology of aging and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Gerontological Social Work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000995800
• Artikelnr.: 68780969

Autorenporträt

Robin P. Bonifas is Professor and Chair of the Social Work Department at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, USA. She has over 15 years' experience working with older adults in long-term care and inpatient psychiatric settings. She is John A. Hartford Faculty Scholar and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work.

Inhaltsangabe

Introducing COVID
19 and Older Adults 1. Age
Based Healthcare Stereotype Threat during the COVID
19 Pandemic 2. Older Adults' Risk Perception during the COVID
19 Pandemic in Lombardy Region of Italy: A Cross
sectional Survey 3. Associations between Volunteering and Mental Health during COVID
19 among Chinese Older Adults 4. Exploring the Impact of COVID
19 Pandemic on Economic Activities and Well
being of Older Adults in South
eastern Nigeria: Lessons for Gerontological Social Workers 5. Digital and Physical Social Exclusion of Older People in Rural Nigeria in the Time of COVID
19 6. Digital Inclusion of Older Adults during COVID
19: Lessons from a Case Study of Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) 7. Concerns of Family Caregivers during COVID
19: The Concerns of Caregivers and the Surprising Silver Linings 8. Is It "Aging" or Immunosenescence? The COVID
19 Biopsychosocial Risk Factors Aggravating Immunosenescence as Another Risk Factor of the Morbus. A Developmental
clinical Social Work Perspective