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Venerable vulnerabi...
Venerable vulnerability or remarkable resilience? : A prospective study of the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine measures on loneliness in Swedish older adults with home care
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- Gustafsson, Per E. (author)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för epidemiologi och global hälsa
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- Nilsson, Ingeborg (author)
- Umeå universitet,Avdelningen för arbetsterapi
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- San Sebastian, Miguel (author)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för epidemiologi och global hälsa
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- 2022-05-24
- 2022
- English.
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In: BMJ Open. - : BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. - 2044-6055. ; 12:5
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- Objectives: To examine the early impact of the pandemic and of quarantine measures targeting older adults introduced in March 2020 on loneliness among older adults in Sweden.Design: Prospective pretest-posttest and controlled interrupted time series designs.Setting: The population of older adults receiving home care before and during the emergence of the first COVID-19 pandemic wave in Sweden in Spring 2020.Participants: Respondents (n=45 123, mean age 85.6 years, 67.6% women) came from two waves of a total population survey targeting all community-dwelling older adults receiving home care for older adults in Sweden in Spring 2019 and 2020.Outcome: Self-reported loneliness.Results: Results estimated 14% (95% CI: 10 to 19) higher loneliness in Spring 2020 compared with 2019, taking covariates into account. No impact of the quarantine measure was found (1% increase, 95% CI: -1 to 4).Conclusions: The results illustrate the broader public health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for older adults, but also suggest a relative resilience among older adults in home care to quarantine measures, at least during the first months of the pandemic. Future studies should examine the long-term effects of sustained pandemic and social distancing measures on loneliness among older adults.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- public health
- geriatric medicine
- health policy
- epidemiology
- old age psychiatry
- preventive medicine
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