Handbook on COVID-19 pandemic and older persons : narratives and issues from India and beyond / Mala Kapur Shankardass, editor.
2023
RA644.C67 H36 2023
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Title
Handbook on COVID-19 pandemic and older persons : narratives and issues from India and beyond / Mala Kapur Shankardass, editor.
ISBN
9789819914678 (electronic bk.)
9819914671 (electronic bk.)
9819914663
9789819914661
9819914671 (electronic bk.)
9819914663
9789819914661
Published
Singapore : Springer, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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10.1007/978-981-99-1467-8 doi
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RA644.C67 H36 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.19624144
Summary
This handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on older people across different countries, focusing on important issues affecting ageing societies. It presents an analytical framework of various emerging concerns affecting societies, transforming of social relationships, bringing in of new health problems, including mental health, elder abuse, impact on intergenerational relationships and emotional and psychological matters. It explores the choices of governments to address the arising issues, indicates different community responses and discusses the experiences of older people in handling of problems cropping up, which affect their quality of life in various ways. The book offers readers new dimensions of the issues nations face with possible similar solutions and ways to handle the concerns. The book is valuable for researchers, practitioners, and students pursuing anthropology, sociology, psychology, and gerontology. The book offers many disciplinary international and national perspectives to understand the relationship between the pandemic and older people.
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Shankardass, Mala Kapur.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Global Concerns, Specific Issues
Challenges faced by institutionalised elderly in COVID era
Country Experiences.
Global Concerns, Specific Issues
Challenges faced by institutionalised elderly in COVID era
Country Experiences.