Older Adults’ Social Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the social participation and daily engagements of older people who were actively involved in community organizations. Guided by a life course perspective, the researchers conducted two in-depth interviews with each of the 52 older adults and performed a thematic analysis of the data. Three major themes emerged from the analysis. Relationship to time and age shows how the pandemic altered the participants’ life trajectories and commitments as well as their sense of aging. The pandemic as a major disruption illustrates how health and participatory routines were scrutinized and reframed following more individualistic and reflexive patterns. The thread of human relationships examines how family and social relationships were maintained through emotional and technological initiatives. The five key principles of life course theory illustrate how the participants adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and negotiated many disruptions affecting their previous habits and routines to maintain, discover, or rediscover significant strategies for engaging in social participation. These findings offer valuable guidance for activity professionals working with older adults in community-based organizations, suggesting strategies for adapting their practices with the lessons learned from de the last health crisis.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it