Aging, Vulnerability and Questions of Care in the Time of COVID-19

Sadruddin, Aalyia Feroz Ali; Inhorn, Marcia C.

doi:10.1080/19428200.2020.1760633

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“…The pandemic effects have been different between population groups not just in terms of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates, but also in terms of the consequences of the implemented restrictions and emergency lockdown measures (Bambra et al, 2020 ). Clinically vulnerable groups in the COVID-19 pandemic include the older people (Gardner et al, 2020 ; Sadruddin & Inhorn, 2020 ) and people with chronic diseases or other underlying risk factors (Gao et al, 2021 ).…”

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Vulnerabilities in Mental Health due to Covid-19 Pandemic: The Response of the Italian Physicians

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COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the pre-existing vulnerabilities and inequalities in societies. In this paper we analyse the categories that have suffered more than others from the pandemic and the restrictions on social life in terms of mental health. We rely on the Serendipity project based on a survey administered between November 2021 and February 2022 to a sample of Italian physicians (n = 1281). The survey aimed to assess the perception of general practitioners, paediatricians, geriatricians, and mental health specialists (psychiatrists, neurologists, child neuropsychiatrists), about changes in the mental health of the population as an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown. The strategies implemented by the doctors interviewed in terms of the intensity of the prevention, emergence, and treatment of mental health interventions, and their association with physicians’ characteristics and their opinions on patient vulnerability have been illustrated by means of a multiple correspondence analysis. An overall result of the survey is the consensus of doctors on the worsening of mental health in general population, especially among their patients, due to the pandemic and on the onset of new discomforts. The most exposed individuals to the risk of onset or worsening of mental disorders include women, young people, and patients with psychiatric comorbidity. The paper also illustrates the interventions put in place by the physicians and deemed necessary from a public heath response perspective, that include providing psychoeducation to the general population, improving telehealth services, and increasing financial and human resources for community-based care.

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“…Quand la vieillesse est culturellement perçue comme un processus de déclin indésirable, un fardeau sociétal, la valeur de la vie des aînés et de leur soin en est affectée, parfois même explicitement. L'avis du 45 e président américain et de certains de ses compatriotes conservateurs selon lequel il convenait de sacrifier les 70 ans et plus afin de protéger l'économie en témoigne (Sadruddin et Inhorn, 2020).…”

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La construction sociale du soin au Québec révélée par la pandémie : quatre réflexions critiques et anthropologiques sur les inégalités, les vulnérabilités et les souffrances multidimensionnelles exacerbées par la COVID-19

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This critical anthropological reflection sheds light on the social construction of care in Quebec revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the analysis of symbols that circulated in Quebec's public space, we will reflect on how the health crisis may have justified and exacerbated the inequalities, vulnerabilities and multidimensional suffering experienced by certain groups of the population. Specifically, we will examine how lives and their protection have been treated differently depending on the social values placed on the mental health, biological bodies, social status and age of individuals. We will use the conceptual framework of care as a common base for these four reflections.

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“…Ethnographic studies in contexts of pandemic times and lockdown exposed other examples of how ways of performing anthropology intersected with dealing with COVID-19. Anthropologists balanced research and caring for elderly family members due to their highest risk of COVID-19 mortality (Sadruddin and Inhorn 2020). Doctoral researchers experienced multiple vulnerabilities during pandemic times (Stavig 2021).…”

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Care During Pandemic Times: Digital Ethnography with Mental Health Professionals in Equatorial Guinea

Francisco

2022

Anthropology and Humanism

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This article discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted my anthropological research inquiry of care among mental health professionals at a community shelter and a psychiatric hospital in Equatorial Guinea. The rapidly evolving changes required the methods of digital anthropology, which allowed an understanding of embodiments of care. Under volatile conditions and intersections between the personal and the public, mental health professionals carried and invested care in communities and (re)discovered new challenges and vulnerabilities. Medical agencies revealed symbolic roles, meanings, and qualities of care. This article proposes opportunities for the discipline of public anthropology to serve as a medium for the engagement of collective solutions. [anthropology, mental health care, Equatorial Guinea, COVID-19] Care: An IntroductionCare is important to me. I understand it means love, union, life, and hope. It is a relationship, a gift. I also understand that care conveys infinite meanings and expressions. The care I find in human medicine, for example, has always been of interest: the kind of healing exchanged with one another, other species, and our world.Care is everywhere. "It depends on the context," wrote anthropologist Annemarie Mol (2008, 63). We can look after our bodies through spiritual communion, check in with a local wellness center, a Chinese traditional medicine doctor, or our primary provider at a clinic. We can take care of our homes and our planet. We might even perform care as work through formalities of employment contracts (Mol 2008, 5), as I do when I practice care (Albert et al. 2015) through the coordination of mental health care programs directed to racially and ethnically diverse communities at a local hospital in Boston. In collaboration with other mental health care professionals, the medical community, and

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Aging, Vulnerability and Questions of Care in the Time of COVID-19

Cited by 10 publications

References 3 publications

Vulnerabilities in Mental Health due to Covid-19 Pandemic: The Response of the Italian Physicians

Vulnerabilities in Mental Health due to Covid-19 Pandemic: The Response of the Italian Physicians

La construction sociale du soin au Québec révélée par la pandémie : quatre réflexions critiques et anthropologiques sur les inégalités, les vulnérabilités et les souffrances multidimensionnelles exacerbées par la COVID-19

Care During Pandemic Times: Digital Ethnography with Mental Health Professionals in Equatorial Guinea

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