The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Informal and Formal Care Disruption and Older Adults’ Psychological Distress : Evidence from The Household Longitudinal Study- Understanding Society
This paper exploits individual-level data from the U.K. Household Longitudinal Study (U.K.HLS), Understanding Society, to investigate how formal and informal caregiving disruptions, due to the U.K. government’s non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) aimed at reducing transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, may have affected the likelihood of psychological distress among older individuals. We model the association between disruption of formal and informal care and mental health of the elderly during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic using a recursive simultaneous equation model for binary variables. Our findings show that the disruption of informal and formal support represents a significant risk factor for psychological wellbeing in this population group and increases their risk of depression
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2022
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Authors: | Di Novi, Cinzia ; Martini, Gianmaria ; Sturaro, Caterina |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
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