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Distanced behind the mask: The use of non-verbal communication when counselling the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Effects of Distance, Noise, and Personal Respiratory Protective Equipment on Speech Comprehension in Simulated Critical Care Setting.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Best practices for communication while wearing facemasks: A scoping review.Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · 2024Article
- Dignity as a Central Issue in Treating Patients with Dementia Associated with COVID-19 Infection.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- A tutorial on discourse analysis in healthy and pathological ageing.International journal of language & communication disordersArticle
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Abstract
The stressors caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have influenced both the physical and the mental health of the elderly, increasing their vulnerability. Counselling by the mental healthcare nurse is a critical protective factor in mitigating the mental health effects of COVID-19. However, counselling is unintentionally interrupted by the effects of the mask as a barrier to non-verbal communication. This commentary aims at conscientisation of mental healthcare nursing practice interruptions to non-verbal communication, brought upon by the pandemic. Practice recommendations focus on mask-wearing becoming less of a stressor to offset the challenges experienced by both the elderly and the mental healthcare nurses. CONTRIBUTION: The authors conclude that a need exists to revisit the fundamentals of counselling, and show initiative to addressing the practice challenges created by the wearing of masks yet simultaneously contribute to #flatten_the_mental_illness_curve.
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