Concluding remarks

ABSTRACT

Although our world's population is separated by water and borders, differences in faith and culture, the pandemic proved to all of us that as humans, unification and collaboration are essential to growing towards a more robust and healthier future as the competition among each other will only create further damage. As the United Nations strives for global improvements through an alliance to attain the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (United Nations, n.d.), individuals and societies across the globe must be informed on what cannot be seen by some by brutally experienced by others. This book series offers a continuous awareness of many global issues for which many are working towards creating solutions that will eventually contribute to the success of the SDGs. This particular series presented readers with global issues that have always been a part of our world, except for the Gomez and Texidor chapter on Coping with Pandemics The Case of Coronavirus. Health issues discussed in this book affect populations that are still misunderstood, stigmatized, and left feeling vulnerable to those that do not understand the complexities. As coronavirus isolated people from each other, people with dementia were left feeling more lost than ever, leading experts like Dr. Mahakian to discover ways that robots could keep elderly patients who have dementia feeling less confused. Substance abuse, including alcohol, increased, leading to health problems. Good health and well-being are both attained differently, but how they are achieved should not matter. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)