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Practical Solutions to Address COVID-19-Related Mental and Physical Health Challenges Among Low-Income Older Adults
Low-income older adults are disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this perspective article, we review the context in which low-income older people experience the pandemic and the mental and physical health consequences they have faced to date. Then, we offer practical solutions to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34322471 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.674847 |
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author | Bergeron, Caroline D. Boolani, Ali Jansen, Erica C. Smith, Matthew Lee |
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description | Low-income older adults are disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this perspective article, we review the context in which low-income older people experience the pandemic and the mental and physical health consequences they have faced to date. Then, we offer practical solutions to help improve low-income older adults' sleep, physical activity, nutrition, and stress that require no or low financial commitment. We argue that governments, communities, and organizations should make greater efforts to promote healthy living for low-income older adults in times of health emergencies to ensure their ability to be universally adopted, regardless of income and resources. |
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spelling | pubmed-83112922021-07-27 Practical Solutions to Address COVID-19-Related Mental and Physical Health Challenges Among Low-Income Older Adults Bergeron, Caroline D. Boolani, Ali Jansen, Erica C. Smith, Matthew Lee Front Public Health Public Health Low-income older adults are disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this perspective article, we review the context in which low-income older people experience the pandemic and the mental and physical health consequences they have faced to date. Then, we offer practical solutions to help improve low-income older adults' sleep, physical activity, nutrition, and stress that require no or low financial commitment. We argue that governments, communities, and organizations should make greater efforts to promote healthy living for low-income older adults in times of health emergencies to ensure their ability to be universally adopted, regardless of income and resources. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8311292/ /pubmed/34322471 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.674847 Text en Copyright © 2021 Bergeron, Boolani, Jansen and Smith. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Bergeron, Caroline D. Boolani, Ali Jansen, Erica C. Smith, Matthew Lee Practical Solutions to Address COVID-19-Related Mental and Physical Health Challenges Among Low-Income Older Adults |
title | Practical Solutions to Address COVID-19-Related Mental and Physical Health Challenges Among Low-Income Older Adults |
title_full | Practical Solutions to Address COVID-19-Related Mental and Physical Health Challenges Among Low-Income Older Adults |
title_fullStr | Practical Solutions to Address COVID-19-Related Mental and Physical Health Challenges Among Low-Income Older Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Practical Solutions to Address COVID-19-Related Mental and Physical Health Challenges Among Low-Income Older Adults |
title_short | Practical Solutions to Address COVID-19-Related Mental and Physical Health Challenges Among Low-Income Older Adults |
title_sort | practical solutions to address covid-19-related mental and physical health challenges among low-income older adults |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34322471 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.674847 |
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