Social Determinants of Health for the Global Aging Population in Pandemic and Disaster Environments

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Social Determinants of Health for the Global Aging Population in Pandemic and Disaster Environments is written by Lené Levy-Storms and published by Frontiers Media SA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 2832560210 (ISBN 10) and 9782832560211 (ISBN 13).

From a biopsychosocial perspective, physical and to a lesser extent mental health have been a priority for researchers, policymakers, and healthcare providers relative to social health. The hegemony of physical health weakened during the COVID pandemic as mental and social health also emerged as equally important and at risk at the same time. Not since the 1960s has society attended to the social vulnerabilities of older adults, particularly in institutional settings. For the first time, the urgency of providing care for older adults has transcended physical settings as frontline workers in hospitals, prisons, schools, and other community-based settings, as well as families in their own homes, also emerged as vulnerable. The institutional care workforce faces an ongoing crisis at the same time some countries have restricted migration, posing a threat to in-home and community-based long-term care. COVID has forced healthcare policymakers to prioritize both acute and long-term health issues simultaneously as society tries to regain full functionality. COVID and future natural and unnatural disasters associated with climate change, threats to democracy, discrimination against societal groups based on age, gender, race/ethnicity, religion, and income status promise to challenge us all to acknowledge and act such that our well-being is everybody’s well-being across the life course. We are all aging, and how different age groups fare affects how other age groups fare.