The Impact on Elderly Mental Health During the Spread of Pandemic
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COVID-19, Mental Health, Elderly.Abstract
The outbreak of COVID-19 is highly infectious and has spread rapidly around the world, which has had a great impact on people's physical and mental health. In addition to the physical impact, the epidemic may also have a different degree of psychological impact on different populations. In particular, some elderly people may have depression, anxiety, anxiety, nervousness, fear and other emotions, which may affect the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 and the standard of life of the elderly. From the psychological perspective of the elderly. With the development of society, the aging process is accelerating. This paper focuses on the importance of psychological intervention for the elderly during the epidemic,and increases the publicity of epidemic knowledge and health education for the elderly, so as to promote the elderly to form good epidemic prevention and control measures, and adopt various forms of communication and psychological counseling, so as to improve the psychological state of the elderly.
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