COVID‐19 and social work practice for older adults in China

Lin, Wenyi; Yin, Wanxia

doi:10.1111/aswp.12221

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“…Thus, findings of this study can only laterally reflect pandemic experiences of older Chinese adults. It has been argued that understanding and meeting the care needs of older adults is essential for policymaking ( 69 , 70 ). I thus call for more qualitative explorations and large-scale quantitative measures to help give us a panoramic picture regarding changes in health literacy, health behaviors and practices, and social connections among older adults due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and underlying reasons contributing to possible health inequalities that exist among the aged.…”

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How Has the Nationwide Public Health Emergency of the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Older Chinese Adults' Health Literacy, Health Behaviors and Practices, and Social Connectedness? Qualitative Evidence From Urban China

Chai

2022

Front. Public Health

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Older Chinese adults' daily lives have been affected significantly during the outbreak phase of the COVID-19 pandemic since January 2020. They were confronted with activity restrictions due to strict pandemic prevention. The older population also had to get accustomed to widely-used modern technologies in community management, such as health codes and WeChat groups. By late 2021, mainland China had reduced the prevalence of COVID-19, and people's daily lives had primarily returned to pre-pandemic normality. Under China's systematic health management during the pandemic, older Chinese adults' responses to this nationwide public health emergency may have influenced their health in the long run. However, it remains unclear what specific health changes or improvements have occurred. Such a void in the literature is worrying, given that older adults are at high health risks due to the pandemic which, might still be with humankind for a while. Thus, it is of necessity to explore and report their health changes after this official, large-scale health intervention. In this study, 17 adults aged 55 and above were recruited as interviewees. All interviewees reside in a community located in Q district, N city of the People's Republic of China. According to the findings, many interviewees now have better literacy in health risk prevention. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a significant role in getting access to health information. Specifically, television, WeChat chatting groups, and TikTok could be valuable information sources for older adults. As for the understanding and evaluation of health information, although older participants can distinguish COVID-19 rumors, they may sometimes feel confused about the underlying scientific logic. Regarding changes in health behaviors and practices, many older adults can integrate health information and knowledge into their daily lives. Additionally, although interviewees can keep important social connections, not all of them are familiar with using new ICTs, such as online chatting group, for social participation and engagement. The empirical evidence suggests that both the communities and the local governments can offer specific training programs to older residents for the sake of enhancing their health literacy, health behaviors and practices, and social connectedness during and after the pandemic.

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How Has the Nationwide Public Health Emergency of the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Older Chinese Adults' Health Literacy, Health Behaviors and Practices, and Social Connectedness? Qualitative Evidence From Urban China

Chai

2022

Front. Public Health

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“…During the recent pandemic, every field of socioeconomic life has a depression-like situation except information communication & technology. There is a huge amount of literature that highlight the importance of ICT for every field of life (Adeba, 2022;Cifuentes-Faura, 2020; de Lucas y Murillo de la Cueva & D'Antonio Maceiras, 2020; Dúo-Terrón, Moreno-Guerrero, & Marín-Marín, 2022;Fernández-de-Castro, Aranda, Moyano, & Sampedro, 2021;Flynn, 2020;Hodžić, Baraković, Kavazović, & Husić, 2021;Hung & Fung, 2021;Lin & Yin, 2021;Schlenger, Jöllenbeck, Stamer, Grosse, & Ochsmann, 2022;Steiner, 2021;Zaheer, Malik, & Munir, 2021). Moreover, the review of the literature shows that an extensive number of studies (Baumol, 1986;Deaton, 2003;Freund & Bolaky, 2008;Mankiw et al, 1995;Redding, 1999;Ulaşan, 2015;Young, 1991) have linked globalization to trade liberalization.…”

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Determinants of Advancement in Information Communication Technologies and its Prospect under the role of Aggregate and Disaggregate Globalization

Audi

Ali

Al-Masri

2022

Sci. Ann. Econ. Bus.

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Globalization has been witnessed to bring numerous benefits to the advancement in information communication technologies. However, to analyze this relationship mostly aggregate globalization and country-specific studies have been conducted, without considering the importance of disaggregate globalization for advancement in information communication technologies. Therefore, this article aims to examine the impact of aggregate and disaggregate globalization on the advancement of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the case of 87 developed and developing countries for 2000-2019. Panel least square and pairwise Dumitrescu-Hurlin panel causality tests have been used for empirical analysis. We have divided our empirical analysis into six models, i.e. aggregate globalization model for whole sample countries, disaggregate globalization model for whole sample countries, aggregate globalization model for developed countries, disaggregate globalization model for developed countries, aggregate globalization model for developing countries, and disaggregate globalization model for developing countries. Our estimated outcomes of the aggregate globalization model for the whole sample countries and developing countries show that globalization has a positive and significant impact on the advancement of information and communication technology. Our outcomes show that economic globalization, social globalization, political globalization, and availability of physical capital have a positive and significant impact on the advancement of ICT in developing countries. In the case of developed countries, aggregate globalization, political globalization, and social globalization reduce the advancement of ICT, whereas the availability of physical capital and economic globalization are raising the advancement of ICT. The results of the causality test show that all the variables have a causal relationship with each other except some variables of developed countries in the disaggregate globalization model. Our outcomes recommend that developing countries should promote aggregate and disaggregate globalization to achieve the desired level of ICT.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on (Remaking?) Social Service Delivery: An 18 Month Review

Schmid

Bradley

2022

Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work

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COVID‐19 and social work practice for older adults in China

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

How Has the Nationwide Public Health Emergency of the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Older Chinese Adults' Health Literacy, Health Behaviors and Practices, and Social Connectedness? Qualitative Evidence From Urban China

How Has the Nationwide Public Health Emergency of the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Older Chinese Adults' Health Literacy, Health Behaviors and Practices, and Social Connectedness? Qualitative Evidence From Urban China

Determinants of Advancement in Information Communication Technologies and its Prospect under the role of Aggregate and Disaggregate Globalization

The Impact of COVID-19 on (Remaking?) Social Service Delivery: An 18 Month Review

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