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Intergenerational family leisure in the COVID-19 pandemic: Some potentials, pitfalls, and paradoxes
COVID-19 has significantly changed the way we engage in leisure. The influence of public health measures and messaging on leisure put older and younger people alike at increased risk of stress, anxiety, loneliness, and isolation. Despite these similar experiences, ageism and tensions between generat...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8681256/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2903 |
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author | Rogers-Jarrell, Tia Vervaecke, Deanna Meisner, Brad |
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description | COVID-19 has significantly changed the way we engage in leisure. The influence of public health measures and messaging on leisure put older and younger people alike at increased risk of stress, anxiety, loneliness, and isolation. Despite these similar experiences, ageism and tensions between generations intensified during the pandemic. Thus, it is imperative to encourage strategies that foster connections and solidarity between generations, such as participating in intergenerational family leisure. Intergenerational family leisure can both attenuate negative outcomes heightened or created by the pandemic (i.e., risk reduction) and increase positive experiences (i.e., wellness promotion). However, it is important to recognize that intergenerational family leisure may not be available, or ideal, for everyone, especially during the pandemic. There are longstanding and pandemic-specific pitfalls to engaging in intergenerational family leisure that need to be considered. Further, the conditions and handling of the COVID-19 pandemic have complicated family leisure in paradoxical ways. Many contradictions emerge as we navigate social systems and personal experiences when engaging in intergenerational family leisure during the pandemic. This paper critically presents some of the potentials, pitfalls, and paradoxes associated with connecting multiple generations in and through family leisure during the pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-86812562021-12-17 Intergenerational family leisure in the COVID-19 pandemic: Some potentials, pitfalls, and paradoxes Rogers-Jarrell, Tia Vervaecke, Deanna Meisner, Brad Innov Aging Abstracts COVID-19 has significantly changed the way we engage in leisure. The influence of public health measures and messaging on leisure put older and younger people alike at increased risk of stress, anxiety, loneliness, and isolation. Despite these similar experiences, ageism and tensions between generations intensified during the pandemic. Thus, it is imperative to encourage strategies that foster connections and solidarity between generations, such as participating in intergenerational family leisure. Intergenerational family leisure can both attenuate negative outcomes heightened or created by the pandemic (i.e., risk reduction) and increase positive experiences (i.e., wellness promotion). However, it is important to recognize that intergenerational family leisure may not be available, or ideal, for everyone, especially during the pandemic. There are longstanding and pandemic-specific pitfalls to engaging in intergenerational family leisure that need to be considered. Further, the conditions and handling of the COVID-19 pandemic have complicated family leisure in paradoxical ways. Many contradictions emerge as we navigate social systems and personal experiences when engaging in intergenerational family leisure during the pandemic. This paper critically presents some of the potentials, pitfalls, and paradoxes associated with connecting multiple generations in and through family leisure during the pandemic. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8681256/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2903 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 Rogers-Jarrell, Tia Vervaecke, Deanna Meisner, Brad Intergenerational family leisure in the COVID-19 pandemic: Some potentials, pitfalls, and paradoxes |
title | Intergenerational family leisure in the COVID-19 pandemic: Some potentials, pitfalls, and paradoxes |
title_full | Intergenerational family leisure in the COVID-19 pandemic: Some potentials, pitfalls, and paradoxes |
title_fullStr | Intergenerational family leisure in the COVID-19 pandemic: Some potentials, pitfalls, and paradoxes |
title_full_unstemmed | Intergenerational family leisure in the COVID-19 pandemic: Some potentials, pitfalls, and paradoxes |
title_short | Intergenerational family leisure in the COVID-19 pandemic: Some potentials, pitfalls, and paradoxes |
title_sort | intergenerational family leisure in the covid-19 pandemic: some potentials, pitfalls, and paradoxes |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8681256/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2903 |
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