Psychiatric Social Work services in geriatric mental health care: COVID-19 as an ‘eye-opener’
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Ageing is a naturally occurring process in the life cycle of human beings. India is a rapidly ageing country with 11.8 percent of its population comprising of older adults in 2015 and estimated to increase up to 18.4 percent by 2025.[1] About 80 percent of the older adults are reported to live in rural areas and of them, 30 percent live below poverty line.[1] Feminization (nearly 51 percent of older adults were women in 2016), and rapid advancement towards globalization, urbanization, industrialization and nuclear families is having direct social, financial, emotional and health implications on the older adults.[1] By the virtue of being a welfare state, the onus to provide for the growing needs of the older adults fall back on the Government, Non-Government Organisations and social workers.
Keywords: Psychiatric Social Work, geriatric, mental health, COVID-19
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