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A Pandemic Paradox: Innovations in Psychological Resiliency and Suicide Prevention in Older Adults
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial negative impact on the health and well-being of older adults, a demographic with the highest proportion of fatalities in North America. Long-term care and retirement homes have been especially hard hit. Sheltering in place can increase social isolation amo...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8679655/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.1608 |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial negative impact on the health and well-being of older adults, a demographic with the highest proportion of fatalities in North America. Long-term care and retirement homes have been especially hard hit. Sheltering in place can increase social isolation among older adults and contribute to feelings of stigmatization, burden, stress, anxiety, anger, and despair. As older adults also account for high rates of suicide, fear of infection, reduced access to professional and social supports, and growing apathy, hopelessness, and social isolation could amplify suicide risk (see Zortea et al., 2020). The speaker will discuss how his program of research on psychological resiliency and suicide prevention in older adults has pivoted online over the past year, and how the pandemic has paradoxically inspired innovative approaches to research, education, clinical practice, and social advocacy for older adults that will likely continue well beyond the present time. |
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spelling | pubmed-86796552021-12-17 A Pandemic Paradox: Innovations in Psychological Resiliency and Suicide Prevention in Older Adults Heisel, Marnin Innov Aging Abstracts The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial negative impact on the health and well-being of older adults, a demographic with the highest proportion of fatalities in North America. Long-term care and retirement homes have been especially hard hit. Sheltering in place can increase social isolation among older adults and contribute to feelings of stigmatization, burden, stress, anxiety, anger, and despair. As older adults also account for high rates of suicide, fear of infection, reduced access to professional and social supports, and growing apathy, hopelessness, and social isolation could amplify suicide risk (see Zortea et al., 2020). The speaker will discuss how his program of research on psychological resiliency and suicide prevention in older adults has pivoted online over the past year, and how the pandemic has paradoxically inspired innovative approaches to research, education, clinical practice, and social advocacy for older adults that will likely continue well beyond the present time. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8679655/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.1608 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Heisel, Marnin A Pandemic Paradox: Innovations in Psychological Resiliency and Suicide Prevention in Older Adults |
title | A Pandemic Paradox: Innovations in Psychological Resiliency and Suicide Prevention in Older Adults |
title_full | A Pandemic Paradox: Innovations in Psychological Resiliency and Suicide Prevention in Older Adults |
title_fullStr | A Pandemic Paradox: Innovations in Psychological Resiliency and Suicide Prevention in Older Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | A Pandemic Paradox: Innovations in Psychological Resiliency and Suicide Prevention in Older Adults |
title_short | A Pandemic Paradox: Innovations in Psychological Resiliency and Suicide Prevention in Older Adults |
title_sort | pandemic paradox: innovations in psychological resiliency and suicide prevention in older adults |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8679655/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.1608 |
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