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Ageing parents of children with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong

Author(s) -

KaHuen Yip

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

public health in practice

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2666-5352

DOI - 10.1016/j.puhip.2020.100053

Subject(s) - covid-19 , outbreak , intellectual disability , psychology , public health , medicine , gerontology , psychiatry , virology , nursing , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)

During the outbreak of COVID-19, the situation of aging parents of adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID) in Hong Kong have encountered great difficulties in their daily lives. Due to the rapid changing conditions of the new virus COVID-19, it posed a lot of uncertainties and risks to the health of the public at large. In this regards, this group of parents and their children with ID are vulnerable to even greater risks and challenges in combating against the new virus. This paper has looked into the difficulties these parents and their children with ID have experienced and how they adjusted to carrying on with their living.

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