Virtual social work care with older Black adults: A culturally relevant technology-based intervention to reduce social isolation and loneliness in a time of pandemic
Gerontological social work and COVID-19: Calls for change in education, practice, and policy from international voices
; : 192-194, 2022.
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| APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-1887794
ABSTRACT
This reprinted chapter originally appeared in Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2020, 63[6-7], 679-681. (The following of the original article appeared in record 2021-00510-027.) Older Black adults are at an increased risk for COVID-19 for a number of reasons poor socioeconomic status;living in rural/remote, high-density, or substandard physical environments;and difficulty accessing health care services (Bowden & Cain, 2020). Experience with anti-Black racism is also known to put members of Black and racialized communities at risk for COVID-19. These factors influence the health and social care of older Black adults, particularly those who are immunocompromised or present with underlying medical conditions, including diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, high blood pressure, and cancer. Current measures for reducing the transmission of COVID-19-including social distancing-do not take a racially and culturally informed approach to health and well-being. In the proposed intervention strategy, as in the traditional African practice of Ubuntu, individuals would see themselves as part of a collective whole. Older Black adults would have a central role in identifying their own and the group's needs, and determine with social workers the best possible solution for meeting those needs. Even at a distance, the interdependent relationship between older Black adults and social workers would depart from the traditional Eurocentric social work practice where the practitioner holds power, determines what the service user needs, and prescribes individualistic solutions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
virtual social work care; older adults; Blacks; technology-based intervention; social isolation; loneliness; COVID-19; pandemics; *Blacks; *Social Casework; *Digital Interventions; *covid-19; *Older Adulthood; Loneliness; Pandemics; Social Isolation; Telemedicine; Community & Social Services [3373]; Human Adulthood (18 yrs & older) Aged (65 yrs & older); Canada
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English
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Gerontological social work and COVID-19: Calls for change in education, practice, and policy from international voices
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2022
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