Ageing parents of children with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong

During the outbreak of COVID-19, the situation of aging parents of adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID) in Hong Kong have encountered great difficulties in their daily lives. Due to the rapid changing conditions of the new virus COVID-19, it posed a lot of uncertainties and risks to the h...

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Autor principal: Yip, Ka-Huen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7647389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34173581
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2020.100053
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description During the outbreak of COVID-19, the situation of aging parents of adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID) in Hong Kong have encountered great difficulties in their daily lives. Due to the rapid changing conditions of the new virus COVID-19, it posed a lot of uncertainties and risks to the health of the public at large. In this regards, this group of parents and their children with ID are vulnerable to even greater risks and challenges in combating against the new virus. This paper has looked into the difficulties these parents and their children with ID have experienced and how they adjusted to carrying on with their living.
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spelling pubmed-76473892020-11-09 Ageing parents of children with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong Yip, Ka-Huen Public Health Pract (Oxf) Short Communication During the outbreak of COVID-19, the situation of aging parents of adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID) in Hong Kong have encountered great difficulties in their daily lives. Due to the rapid changing conditions of the new virus COVID-19, it posed a lot of uncertainties and risks to the health of the public at large. In this regards, this group of parents and their children with ID are vulnerable to even greater risks and challenges in combating against the new virus. This paper has looked into the difficulties these parents and their children with ID have experienced and how they adjusted to carrying on with their living. Elsevier 2020-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7647389/ /pubmed/34173581 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2020.100053 Text en © 2020 The Author https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Ageing parents of children with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong
title_full Ageing parents of children with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong
title_fullStr Ageing parents of children with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong
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title_short Ageing parents of children with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7647389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34173581
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2020.100053
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