Can COVID-19 Move Myanmar in the Right Direction? Perspectives on Older People, Mental Health, and Local Organizations

• Mental Health in Myanmar needs more attention, funding, and research. • Older people's mental health in Myanmar is exacerbated by economic and social effects of COVID-19. • Local community organizations are the main source of care for older people, yet in urgent need for financial support....

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Autores principales: Akhter-Khan, Samia C., Wai, Khin Myo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7291977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32631750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2020.06.004
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spelling pubmed-72919772020-06-12 Can COVID-19 Move Myanmar in the Right Direction? Perspectives on Older People, Mental Health, and Local Organizations Akhter-Khan, Samia C. Wai, Khin Myo Am J Geriatr Psychiatry Article • Mental Health in Myanmar needs more attention, funding, and research. • Older people's mental health in Myanmar is exacerbated by economic and social effects of COVID-19. • Local community organizations are the main source of care for older people, yet in urgent need for financial support. American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020-09 2020-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7291977/ /pubmed/32631750 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2020.06.004 Text en © 2020 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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