COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact on older people, in terms of their susceptibility to the disease and increased fatality rates, while also by creating barriers to health care access, social isolation, psychological and financial burdens. Policy responses provide an opportunity to understand whether the demands of this crisis have led to the development of policy innovations to meet the needs of aging populations. We analyzed an illustrative corpus of policies collected by HelpAge International across Asia in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Vietnam. We identified different policy types that impacted older persons during the pandemic. We also observed the degree to which these policies support arguments for paradigmatic policy changes by examining different models of intersectoral and multisectoral collaborations, and the kinds of policies where these multiactor arrangements were the most common. From our analysis, we identify two main areas where COVID-19 policies are most likely to lead to more long-lasting innovation in Asia. The first is in the upgrading of infrastructures to ensure access to benefits, and to develop remote and doorstep banking. The second area is well-being and caring support, such as the development of programs to provide increased services to support home-based older persons, including telemedicine, delivery services for medical and other supplies, and remote support for older persons and their carers. These changes, while important, are consistent with “acceleration” models of policy change, where COVID-19 responses sped up, and scaled up, programs consistent with current institutional and organizational structures.

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COVID-19 是老年人政策行动创新的触发器？来自亚洲的证据

COVID-19 对老年人产生了不成比例的影响，包括对疾病的易感性和死亡率的增加，同时也对获得医疗保健、社会隔离、心理和经济负担造成障碍。政策响应提供了一个机会，可以了解这场危机的需求是否导致了政策创新的发展，以满足人口老龄化的需求。我们分析了 HelpAge International 在亚洲收集的阿富汗、孟加拉国、印度、伊朗、日本、韩国、缅甸、巴基斯坦和越南的政策说明性语料库。我们确定了在大流行期间影响老年人的不同政策类型。我们还通过研究跨部门和多部门合作的不同模式，以及这些多方安排最常见的政策种类，观察了这些政策在多大程度上支持范式政策变革的论点。根据我们的分析，我们确定了 COVID-19 政策最有可能在亚洲带来更持久创新的两个主要领域。首先是升级基础设施以确保获得利益，并发展远程和上门银行业务。第二个领域是福祉和关怀支持，例如制定计划以提供更多服务以支持居家老年人，包括远程医疗、医疗和其他用品的运送服务，以及对老年人及其照顾者的远程支持。这些变化虽然重要，但