TY - JOUR
T1 - Drawing on Kinship Care Support for Older People during a Pandemic (COVID-19)
T2 - Practice Considerations for Social Workers in Ghana
AU - Cudjoe, Ebenezer
AU - Abdullah, Alhassan
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - COVID-19 pandemic
KW - Ghana
KW - kinship care support
KW - older people
KW - social workers
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084617088&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01634372.2020.1758271
DO - 10.1080/01634372.2020.1758271
M3 - Letter
C2 - 32326853
AN - SCOPUS:85084617088
VL - 63
SP - 254
EP - 256
JO - Journal of Gerontological Social Work
JF - Journal of Gerontological Social Work
SN - 0163-4372
IS - 4
ER -