id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-303131-hnfu49x7 Shaygan, Maryam Considerations for Mitigation of the Psychological Impacts of COVID-19 in Older Adults 2020-07-17 .txt text/plain 986 66 58 Therefore, stakeholders and health policymakers should take measures to prevent the potential mental health problems that might arise in older adults who are quarantined during the COVID-19 outbreak. Here are some suggestions to help mitigate the consequences of quarantine among Shaygan M, Bahadori F ijcbnm.sums.ac.ir older adults: Moreover, Internet-based services, smartphones, social media (e.g. WhatsApp), and electronic books are not widely available to older adults. Therefore, governments and community-based health services should provide enough information about the disease via mass media, such as radio and television, which are most accessible to the elderly. Health services must also communicate adequate information to older adults in quarantine about what to do in the case of developing illness symptoms. Some strategies that stakeholders and health policy-makers should implement to provide effective services to older adults who are quarantined at home during the COVID-19 pandemic are suggested in the present article. Mental health services for older adults in China during the COVID-19 outbreak ./cache/cord-303131-hnfu49x7.txt ./txt/cord-303131-hnfu49x7.txt