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.
| ISBN: | 9789819914692 |
| Publication date: | 24th June 2024 |
| Author: | Mala Kapur Shankardass |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Nature Singapore |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 646 pages |
| Genres: |
Social, group or collective psychology Clinical psychology Social welfare and social services |
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.
Handbook on COVID-19 Pandemic and Older Persons features in the following genres: Social, group or collective psychology, Clinical psychology, Social welfare and social services
Handbook on COVID-19 Pandemic and Older Persons is available in Paperback, Hardback
Handbook on COVID-19 Pandemic and Older Persons was written by Mala Kapur Shankardass and published by Springer an imprint of Springer Nature Singapore
Handbook on COVID-19 Pandemic and Older Persons has 646 pages
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