Cudjoe Ebenezer, Abdullah Alhassan
Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong , Kowloong Tong.
Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong.
J Gerontol Soc Work. 2020 May-Jun;63(4):254-256. doi: 10.1080/01634372.2020.1758271. Epub 2020 Apr 24.
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.
毫无疑问，当前的新冠疫情给社会工作者为老年人等弱势群体谋福祉的工作带来了系统性的实践变化和限制。新冠疫情的一项重要预防原则是保持身体和社交距离，这限制了社会工作者对被视为高危人群的老年人的直接实践支持。在加纳等亲属照料做法在文化中根深蒂固的司法管辖区，社会工作者应促进亲属照料支持，将其作为保障或满足老年人福利需求的替代机制和途径。
