COVID-19 has had profound effects on older adults and will have lasting impacts on their preferences and needs for services, including those offered by Meals on Wheels and other community organizations. Organizations serving older adults would benefit from insights about how to prioritize resources ...
People with arthritis experienced a "roller coaster" of emotions and saw their symptoms worsen during the COVID-19 lockdown—according to research from the University of East Anglia. A 12-week survey of 264 people withinflammatory arthritis(such asrheumatoid arthritis) found that 39 percent of pa...
Besides the direct impact COVID-19 has had on society, the pandemic has caused a potentially long-term secondary crisis. People have undergone a prolonged period of heightened stress. The grief, trauma further aggravate that stress and isolation people have been feeling during the pandemic. Initial...
Existing literature has found the COVID-19 pandemic increased the digital divide, also known as digital poverty. Many people who the digital divide has impacted did not have access to opportunities, such as telemedicine and telecommuting, that were available to people with technology access during ...
With COVID-19, of course, the world has experienced a huge setback. There have been more than 2 million deaths due to COVID-19 alone. The impact of the pandemic has caused economic recession and has pushed millions back into poverty, hunger and inequality. ...
While the pandemic has significantly impacted the number of patients coming to the clinic, it has also spurred physician adoption of remote and telehealth treatment. These changes not only serve more people and provide more patient-centric care (e.g. allowing flexibility in scheduling, takin...
The COVID-19 pandemic brought a fair deal of stress to everyone, but especially older people worldwide. Between December 2019 and March 2020, 32% of those infected were hospitalized, 2.4% developed acute illness requiring ventilation, and 1.5%—more than
Here’s how COVID has impacted the need for an online presence and how real estate agents can take theirs to the next level. Increased Need for a Quality Website Your real estate company website is your face to the world. Even before the pandemic, it was a place where potential buyers...
Curran also has a larger, more existential concern when he considers the lessons of the AIDS and covid pandemics: “The problem is, if you bad-mouth Fauci and his successors so much, the next epidemic, people come around and they say, ‘Why should we trust these people?’ And the ...
How COVID-19 Has Impacted U.S. Spending Levels Opportunity Insights researchers at Harvard University have been using credit card datato track U.S. spending levelsthroughoutthe pandemic. As this infographic shows, consumer spending plummeted between the middle and end of March. While it was 0.5...