TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shankardass,Mala Kapur
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Handbook on COVID-19 Pandemic and Older Persons: : Narratives and Issues from India and Beyond 
SN  - 9789819914678
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Singapore
PB  - Springer Nature Singapore, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Social service
KW  - Social Psychology
KW  - Mental Health
KW  - Social Care
N1  - Introduction -- Global Concerns, Specific Issues -- Challenges faced by institutionalised elderly in COVID era -- Country Experiences
N2  - 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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