When Going Digital Becomes a Necessity

Ensuring Older Adults’ Needs for Information, Services, and Social Inclusion During Covid-19

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23364314
AutoresBo Xie (0000-0001-7641-5139, The University of Texas at Austin, autor correspondente), Neil Charne (0000-0002-1002-3439, Florida State University), K L Fingerman (0000-0001-9260-9400, The University of Texas at Austin), Karen Fingerman (The University of Texas at Austin), Jeffrey Kaye (0000-0002-9971-3478, Layton Professor, Neurology and Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University and Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, USA), Miyong T Kim (0000-0002-4769-9387, The University of Texas at Austin), Anjum Khurshid (0000-0002-8946-0622, The University of Texas at Austin)
Ano2020
Volume32
Fascículo4-5
Páginas460-470
Data de publicação2020-07-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Aging & Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0895-9420 • E-ISSN: 1545-0821
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08959420.2020.1771237
PMID32507061
OpenAlexW3032940444
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas88
Referências citadas18

Older adults are in triple jeopardy during COVID-19: compared with younger people, older adults are (1) more likely to develop serious conditions and experience higher mortality; (2) less likely to obtain high quality information or services online; and (3) more likely to experience social isolation and loneliness. Hybrid solutions, coupling online and offline strategies, are invaluable in ensuring the inclusion of vulnerable populations. Most of these solutions require no new inventions. Finding the financial resources for a rapid, well-coordinated implementation is the biggest challenge. Setting up the requisite support systems and digital infrastructure is important for the present and future pandemics.

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Digital Inclusion · Inclusion (mineral) · Internet privacy · Isolation (microbiology) · Loneliness · Pandemic · Political science · Psychiatry · Public relations · Social isolation · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Medicine · Mobile Health and mHealth Applications · Psychology · Social Psychology · Technology Use by Older Adults · Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation · Virology · Gerontology