Social work, mental health, older people and COVID-19

Brennan, John F.; Reilly, Patrice; Cuskelly, Kerry; Donnelly, Sarah

doi:10.1017/s1041610220000873

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“…The new coronavirus disease, termed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO) [ 1 , 2 , 3 ], has left people in a state of mind such that fear of the unknown has severely affected the mental well-being of people of all ages worldwide [ 4 , 5 , 6 ]. With the emergence of this deadly virus, people are locked down wherever they are.…”

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Conceptualizing COVID-19 and Public Panic with the Moderating Role of Media Use and Uncertainty in China: An Empirical Framework

Sattar

2020

Healthcare

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Uncertainty puts people in a binary state of mind, where every piece of external information can positively or negatively affect their state of health. Given the uncertain situation created by the new coronavirus pandemic, this study claims to be the first empirical analysis of the real-time status of public panic in China. It frames peoples’ intrinsic and extrinsic stimuli, creating a psychosocial analysis of public panic. We conducted an online survey of WeChat and QQ users in February 2020 and collected 1613 samples through a QR code questionnaire. We used the ordinary least squares (OLS) regression equation model to conceptualize public panic pathways in different gender and age groups. This underlines the psychological origins of fear and anxiety and points out how the media uses socially constructed public panic. The results show that the outbreak of COVID-19 created uncertainty among the public, and the official media intensified it because of the late dissemination of news about the outbreak’s real-time status. Hence, unofficial media remained faster in news reporting, but the news reporting remained contradictory with official reports. This created doubts about the authenticity of the given information and caused public mental health abnormalities. The study provides a conceptual framework based on lessons learned from physiology, psychology, and social psychology and real-time public analysis to inform policymakers and public administrators about the contextual dynamics of public panic in China. It provides useful insights into the wise handling of this uncertain time and controlling the fatal conditions of public panic created by COVID-19. It has implications for other countries as well.

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Conceptualizing COVID-19 and Public Panic with the Moderating Role of Media Use and Uncertainty in China: An Empirical Framework

Sattar

2020

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“…Another disturbing example of inhuman and degrading treatment relates to end-of-life care. Evidence from Ireland indicates that residents' wishes were either not sought or disregarded entirely (Brennan et al, 2020). As a result of relatives being excluded from visiting care homes, many residents died alone causing unimaginable levels of pain and distress to residents and relatives (McGarry et al, 2020).…”

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“…During the pandemic care home residents' have experienced a range of violations to both their liberty and security (Brennan et al, 2020). Their rights were breached by jeopardising protection from possible carriers, or conversely, restricting liberty of movement.…”

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The covid-19 pandemic and care homes for older people in Europe - deaths, damage and violations of human rights

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Milne

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European Journal of Social Work

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Throughout Europe the most damaging consequences of the coronavirus have fallen disproportionately on older people who live in care homes. This study involves the analysis of secondary data sources relating to deaths, and related harms, in European care homes from seven countries between March and December 2020. The findings are reviewed using the framework of the European Convention on Human Rights to identify examples of human rights violations -namely the right to life, liberty and security, respect for private and family life, and prohibition of torture, and general prohibition of discrimination. A significant contributing factor to the scale and nature of deaths and harms is the abject disregard of older people's human rights. Based on the findings, the authors, a group of social work academics, call for an urgent re-examination of the role of social work in relationship to care homes and the importance of re-engaging with human rights issues for care home residents.

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“…School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, UK 1 This article concerns the UK, but many of the gendered patterns of COVID-19 and associated restrictions can be seen across other countries, see for exampleMcLaren et al (2020),Brennan et al (2020).…”

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Households, bubbles and hugging grandparents: Caring and lockdown rules during COVID-19

Gulland

2020

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Efforts to combat the COVID-19 crisis brought mountains of legislation and guidance to coerce or encourage people to stay at home and reduce the spread of the virus. During peak lockdown in the United Kingdom (UK) regulations defined when people could or could not leave their homes. Meanwhile guidance on social distancing advised people to stay within ‘households’. This paper explores the legislation under lockdowns in the UK from March to October 2020 and the implications for women’s gendered caring roles. The regulations and guidance assumed that households were separate units and ignored the interdependencies which exist between households and between individuals and wider society. The continuing focus in the lockdown regulations has been on households as autonomous, safe, adequate and secure. This overlooks the interdependency of human life, gendered aspects of caring and the inequalities of housing and living conditions, highlighted by feminist scholarship.

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Social work, mental health, older people and COVID-19

Abstract: In this commentary, we will explore the work of social work in Ireland in addressing the impact of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) crisis on older people in general, and older people who have an enduring mental illness.

Cited by 26 publications

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Conceptualizing COVID-19 and Public Panic with the Moderating Role of Media Use and Uncertainty in China: An Empirical Framework

Conceptualizing COVID-19 and Public Panic with the Moderating Role of Media Use and Uncertainty in China: An Empirical Framework

The covid-19 pandemic and care homes for older people in Europe - deaths, damage and violations of human rights

Households, bubbles and hugging grandparents: Caring and lockdown rules during COVID-19

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