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ArticleInternational journal of care and caring2022

Under Reconstruction: The Impact of COVID-19 Policies on the Lives and Support Networks of Older People Living Alone.

Johanna Pfabigan, Paulina Wosko, Barbara Pichler, Elisabeth Reitinger, Sabine Pleschberger

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Article in International journal of care and caring, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Johanna PfabiganAustrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH), Austria.
Paulina WoskoAustrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH), Austria.
Barbara PichlerUniversity of Vienna, Austria.
Elisabeth ReitingerUniversity of Vienna, Austria.
Sabine PleschbergerAustrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH), Austria.

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF P 30607
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Austrian government introduced in spring 2020 COVID-19 containment policies that had various impacts on older people living alone (OPLA) and their care arrangements. Seven qualitative telephone interviews with OPLA were conducted to explore how they were affected by these policies. The findings show that the management of everyday life and support was challenging for OPLA even though they did not perceive the pandemic as a threat. To better address the needs of OPLA, it would be important to actively negotiate single measures in the area of conflict between protection, safety and assurance of autonomy.

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COVID-19 pandemicliving alonenon-kin careolder people

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PMID36865632
PMCPMC7614259

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