99 KB0 KB200420242021Mali, Janaletnik:18številka:2str. 39-51DOI:10.51936/blxm2502COBISSID:120163843ISSN:1854-0023URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-X4AFERIEenFakulteta za družbene vedeMetodološki zvezkiCOVID-19dolgotrajna oskrbapandemijesocialno delostari ljudjevsakdanje življenjeThe impact of pandemic containment measures COVID-19 on social work research with older people|Researching people’s everyday lives, exploring and working out answers together with peopleare fundamental processes of social work, whether working with individuals, different groupsor communities. Without research, we cannot possibly know what specific tasks we canundertake or what social work goals we can achieve when it comes to helping situations.In recent decades, social work with older people has directed research toward the area ofexploring the needs of people in long-term care, which has been shaped primarily by the COVID-19 pandemic. Measures taken to contain the pandemic have limited or even preventedopportunities to research the real-life situations of people in long-term care. Social workresearch with older people was limited in its ability to determine the impact of the pandemicon the lives of older people, which was a violation of fundamental ethical values in providingtailored care in the new life situations of the most vulnerable, frail, and needy membersof society. This paper highlights the importance of social work research that addresses theimmediate living environment in order to fully understand people’s life situations that impactthe development of both the profession and the science of social work. However, the barriersto research due to pandemic containment measures have impacted the profession and thedevelopment of social work scienceTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za družbene vede