Category:
User Experience
Net4Age Ontology Terms:
autonomy
, citizen
, inclusion
, isolation
, safety
Description:
A pressing challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond is to provide accessible and scalable mental health support to isolated older adults in the community. The Telehealth Intervention Program for Older Adults (TIP-OA) is a large-scale, volunteer-based, friendly telephone support program designed to address this unmet need
Overview:
Providing telephone support for the elderly to counter social isolation
Objectives:
Testing whether this type of support can help reduce levels of stress, anxiety and depression in users during COVID-19 in people isolated
Initiatives:
This study demonstrated that providing telephone support to older adults who were isolated during Covid-19 reduced and stabilised mental health symptoms in older adults
Shortcomings:
It does not consider the involvement of possible caregivers living with the participants. This does not allow other factors to be excluded from the causes of psychological disorders
Relevance:
1
Relevance Description:
Not relevant to the project
Quality:
3
Opinion:
It is an interesting initiative that can provide companionship and support to those who have been most isolated during covid. It would be a question of whether it is equally effective now that there are no longer any limits due to the pandemic
Recommended:
No
Overlap:
No
Overlap Detail:
Sources:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36304184/
Keywords:
Isolation - Mental health support - Older adults - Stress - Telehealth
Submitted By:
Pascal Fallavollita
Email:
ef.pillitteri@outlook.com