Aging Services Workers in the Pandemic: Voiced Experience of Senior Center Staff and Case Workers

We conducted a qualitative descriptive study, using focus groups to understand the experience and perspective of the older adult service staff during both the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants expressed the need for more education and training and ongoing psychosocial supp...

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Autores principales: Okang, Esther Narkie, Aaron, Siohban, Supiano, Katherine, Osman, Abdukrazak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Effects on Older Adults, Families, Caregivers, Health Care Providers, and Communities
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9354122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35937278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214221116470
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spelling pubmed-93541222022-08-06 Aging Services Workers in the Pandemic: Voiced Experience of Senior Center Staff and Case Workers Okang, Esther Narkie Aaron, Siohban Supiano, Katherine Osman, Abdukrazak Gerontol Geriatr Med The COVID-19 Pandemic Effects on Older Adults, Families, Caregivers, Health Care Providers, and Communities We conducted a qualitative descriptive study, using focus groups to understand the experience and perspective of the older adult service staff during both the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants expressed the need for more education and training and ongoing psychosocial support, yet demonstrated sustained resiliency coping, work self-efficacy, and a deepened dedication to community residing older adult clients. SAGE Publications 2022-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9354122/ /pubmed/35937278 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214221116470 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Aging Services Workers in the Pandemic: Voiced Experience of Senior Center Staff and Case Workers
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title_fullStr Aging Services Workers in the Pandemic: Voiced Experience of Senior Center Staff and Case Workers
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title_short Aging Services Workers in the Pandemic: Voiced Experience of Senior Center Staff and Case Workers
title_sort aging services workers in the pandemic: voiced experience of senior center staff and case workers
topic The COVID-19 Pandemic Effects on Older Adults, Families, Caregivers, Health Care Providers, and Communities
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