{"id":7413,"date":"2020-10-06T11:14:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T09:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interdem.org\/?p=7413"},"modified":"2020-11-10T11:15:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T09:15:20","slug":"article-of-the-month-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/?p=7413","title":{"rendered":"Article of the month &#8211; September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The website committee selected as publication of the month\u00a0September:<\/p>\n<p>Giebel, Clarissa, Kathryn Lord, Claudia Cooper, Justine Shenton, Jacqueline Cannon, Daniel Pulford, Lisa Shaw et al. \u201cA UK survey of COVID\u201019 related social support closures and their effects on older people, people with dementia, and carers.\u201d\u00a0<em>International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>This is the first\u00a0 study to \u00a0quantify\u00a0 how\u00a0 the\u00a0 pandemic \u00a0has\u00a0 impacted\u00a0 social\u00a0 support\u00a0 service \u00a0availability, and to explore the impact of this on the lives of older adults and people living with dementia across the UK. A total of 569 participants were involved in the study. Findings suggest that social support service usage was significantly \u00a0reduced \u00a0post Covid-19 and that \u00a0failure to \u00a0access \u00a0these \u00a0contributed to \u00a0worse quality of life and anxiety. Seeking alternative ways to re-provide support to meet the needs of those requiring social support are recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website committee selected as publication of the month\u00a0September: Giebel, Clarissa, Kathryn Lord, Claudia Cooper, Justine Shenton, Jacqueline Cannon, Daniel Pulford, Lisa Shaw et al. \u201cA UK survey of COVID\u201019 [&hellip;] ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,328],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7414,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions\/7414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}