Drawing on Kinship Care Support for Older People during a Pandemic (COVID-19): Practice Considerations for Social Workers in Ghana |
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| Authors: | Ebenezer Cudjoe Alhassan Abdullah |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong , Kowloong Tong Cebenezer52@gmail.com/ecudjoe-3@my.cityu.edu.hk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9908-0834;3. Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5381-5340 |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT Undoubtedly, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought both systemic, practice changes and limitations to social workers’ commitment to the welfare of vulnerable populations such as older people. A golden preventive rule of the COVID-19 pandemic; maintaining physical and social distancing, has limited social workers’ direct practice support for older people who are considered as an at-risk population. Within jurisdictions such as Ghana where kinship care practices are culturally engrained, social workers should promote kinship care support as substitute mechanisms and pathways to safeguard or meet the welfare needs of older people. |
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| Keywords: | older people COVID-19 pandemic social workers kinship care support Ghana |
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9908-0834;3. Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong