2020年5月15日 星期五

新聞選輯:COVID-19 and Older Adults: Time Management & Self-Care Skills

From:https://publichealth.wustl.edu/covid-19-and-older-adults-time-management-self-care-skills/

COVID-19 and Older Adults: Time Management & Self-Care Skills
May 12, 2020
By Kim Furlow, Institute for Public Health; Natalie Galucia, MSW; Nancy Morrow-Howell, MSW, PhD; and Emma Swinford, MPH, MSW, Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging

Stay-at-home orders have meant that the routines of millions of people have been disrupted. To stay safe at home, many older adults have been disconnected from jobs, travel plans, grandparent obligations, volunteer engagements, and social gatherings with friends and family. For many, this has been a disorienting shift in the use of time; and for others, it has been very instructive.

In the past two months, we have all been forced to devise a new structure in our days, schedules, and even in our society. We are now finding new ways to fill our time at home, complete our errands, maintain relationships, and decide what fundamentally, on a daily basis, gives us purpose.

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