A Double Burden of Exclusion? Digital and Social Exclusion of Older Adults in Times of COVID-19
A Double Burden of Exclusion? Digital and Social Exclusion of Older Adults in Times of COVID-19
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DOI：
10.1093/geronb/gbaa098
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发表时间：
2021-03-01
影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Xie, Bo
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作者：
Seifert, Alexander;Cotten, Shelia R.;Xie, Bo
2019冠状病毒病大流行将老年人排除在基于身体社交接触的社会之外。老年人等弱势群体也往往被排除在数字服务之外，因为他们选择不使用互联网，缺乏必要的设备和网络连接，或者缺乏使用技术的经验。身体虚弱、不上网的老年人，其中许多人住在长期护理机构，他们在社会和数字排斥的双重负担中挣扎。本文讨论了这种排斥的潜在后果，并提供了纠正这种情况的建议，特别关注长期护理设施中的老年人。
The COVID-19 pandemic has excluded older adults from a society based on physical social contact. Vulnerable populations like older adults also tend to be excluded from digital services because they opt not to use the internet, lack necessary devices and network connectivity, or inexperience using the technology. Older adults who are frail and are not online, many of whom are in long-term care facilities, struggle with the double burden of social and digital exclusion. This paper discusses the potential outcomes of this exclusion and provides recommendations for rectifying the situation, with a particular focus on older adults in long-term care facilities.