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Drawing on Kinship Care Support for Older People during a Pandemic (COVID-19): Practice Considerations for Social Workers in Ghana.
- Source :
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Journal of gerontological social work [J Gerontol Soc Work] 2020 May-Jun; Vol. 63 (4), pp. 254-256. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Apr 24. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Undoubtedly, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought both systemic, practice changes and limitations to social workers' commitment to the welfare of vulnerable populations such as older people. A golden preventive rule of the COVID-19 pandemic; maintaining physical and social distancing, has limited social workers' direct practice support for older people who are considered as an at-risk population. Within jurisdictions such as Ghana where kinship care practices are culturally engrained, social workers should promote kinship care support as substitute mechanisms and pathways to safeguard or meet the welfare needs of older people.
- Subjects :
- Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections transmission
Ghana epidemiology
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral transmission
Risk Factors
SARS-CoV-2
Communicable Disease Control methods
Coronavirus Infections epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral epidemiology
Social Support
Social Work organization & administration
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1540-4048
- Volume :
- 63
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of gerontological social work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 32326853
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2020.1758271