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COVID-19期間中の高齢者の社会的孤立を減らすための医学生の電話連絡
Reducing Social Isolation of Seniors during COVID-19 through Medical Student Telephone Contact.
PMID: 32674825 PMCID: PMC7274632. DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2020.06.003.
抄録
社会的孤立は、高齢者における多くの有害な健康上の転帰と関連している。我々は、COVID-19パンデミック時に社会的孤立の危険性がある長期療養施設や地域社会に住む高齢者に、医療専門家の学生ボランティアが電話をかけたアウトリーチプログラムについて述べている。会話のトピックは、恐怖や不安、孤立、支援の源、健康、家族や友人、趣味、人生経験などの個人的な話題を含む対処法に関連していました。学生ボランティアは、この電話は学生と高齢者の両方に影響を与えたと感じており、電話を受けた人は、電話を受けたことと、電話を紹介してくれた医師に感謝の意を表していました。この電話によるアウトリーチ戦略は一般化しやすく、医学部では学生を活用して、社会的に孤立した高齢者と様々な環境でつながることができます。
Social isolation has been associated with many adverse health outcomes in older adults. We describe a phone call outreach program in which health care professional student volunteers phoned older adults, living in long-term care facilities and the community, at risk of social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conversation topics were related to coping, including fears or insecurities, isolation, and sources of support; health; and personal topics such as family and friends, hobbies, and life experiences. Student volunteers felt the calls were impactful both for the students and for the seniors, and call recipients expressed appreciation for receiving the calls and for the physicians who referred them for a call. This phone outreach strategy is easily generalizable and can be adopted by medical schools to leverage students to connect to socially isolated seniors in numerous settings.
Copyright © 2020 AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.