Drawing on Kinship Care Support for Older People during a Pandemic (COVID-19): Practice Considerations for Social Workers in Ghana

Ebenezer Cudjoe, Alhassan Abdullah

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Abstract

Undoubtedly, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought both systemic, practice changes and limitations to social workers’ commitment to the welfare of vulnerable populations such as older people. A golden preventive rule of the COVID-19 pandemic; maintaining physical and social distancing, has limited social workers’ direct practice support for older people who are considered as an at-risk population. Within jurisdictions such as Ghana where kinship care practices are culturally engrained, social workers should promote kinship care support as substitute mechanisms and pathways to safeguard or meet the welfare needs of older people.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)254-256
Number of pages3
JournalJournal of Gerontological Social Work
Volume63
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • COVID-19 pandemic
  • Ghana
  • kinship care support
  • older people
  • social workers

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