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“Geriatric Proximity” Intervention in COVID-19 Context: Contribution to Reducing Loneliness and Improving Affectivity

(1) Background: The pandemic context has limited the social and family contacts of institutionalized older adults, and intervention is urgently needed. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of the implementation of a “Geriatric Proximity” intervention on the functioning, satisfaction with so...

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Autores principales: Morgado, Bruno, Fonseca, Cesar, Afonso, Anabela, Amaro, Pedro, Lopes, Manuel, de Pinho, Lara Guedes
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10037567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36960994
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics8020039
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author Morgado, Bruno
Fonseca, Cesar
Afonso, Anabela
Amaro, Pedro
Lopes, Manuel
de Pinho, Lara Guedes
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Fonseca, Cesar
Afonso, Anabela
Amaro, Pedro
Lopes, Manuel
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description (1) Background: The pandemic context has limited the social and family contacts of institutionalized older adults, and intervention is urgently needed. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of the implementation of a “Geriatric Proximity” intervention on the functioning, satisfaction with social support, affective experience, and feelings of loneliness of institutionalized older adults in the times of the pandemic. (2) Methods: This is a pilot study. An experimental group (subject to the “Geriatric Proximity” intervention) and a control group were constituted. Four assessment instruments were applied to both groups: the satisfaction with social support scale; the elderly nursing core set; the positive and negative affect schedule; and the UCLA loneliness scale. (3) Results: The control group shows no differences between the three measurement instants, while the experimental group shows between first and third measurements (all p < 0.05). We observed a reduction in the scores of loneliness scale, negative affect, and cognition functioning and an increase in satisfaction with social support and positive affect. (4) Conclusions: The intervention “Geriatric Proximity” showed a positive contribution by decreasing loneliness and increasing affectivity, satisfaction with social support, and cognitive function during the pandemic period.
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spelling pubmed-100375672023-03-25 “Geriatric Proximity” Intervention in COVID-19 Context: Contribution to Reducing Loneliness and Improving Affectivity Morgado, Bruno Fonseca, Cesar Afonso, Anabela Amaro, Pedro Lopes, Manuel de Pinho, Lara Guedes Geriatrics (Basel) Article (1) Background: The pandemic context has limited the social and family contacts of institutionalized older adults, and intervention is urgently needed. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of the implementation of a “Geriatric Proximity” intervention on the functioning, satisfaction with social support, affective experience, and feelings of loneliness of institutionalized older adults in the times of the pandemic. (2) Methods: This is a pilot study. An experimental group (subject to the “Geriatric Proximity” intervention) and a control group were constituted. Four assessment instruments were applied to both groups: the satisfaction with social support scale; the elderly nursing core set; the positive and negative affect schedule; and the UCLA loneliness scale. (3) Results: The control group shows no differences between the three measurement instants, while the experimental group shows between first and third measurements (all p < 0.05). We observed a reduction in the scores of loneliness scale, negative affect, and cognition functioning and an increase in satisfaction with social support and positive affect. (4) Conclusions: The intervention “Geriatric Proximity” showed a positive contribution by decreasing loneliness and increasing affectivity, satisfaction with social support, and cognitive function during the pandemic period. MDPI 2023-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC10037567/ /pubmed/36960994 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics8020039 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short “Geriatric Proximity” Intervention in COVID-19 Context: Contribution to Reducing Loneliness and Improving Affectivity
title_sort “geriatric proximity” intervention in covid-19 context: contribution to reducing loneliness and improving affectivity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10037567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36960994
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics8020039
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