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LONG-TERM POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AMONG OLDER ADULTS

Despite their greater physiological vulnerability, community-residing older adults have shown surprising psychological resilience, at least at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a handful of reports suggest that older adults’ well-being has decreased after a few months, although others...

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Autores principales: Aldwin, Carolyn, Choun, Soyoung, Kurth, Maria, Lee, Hye Soo, Lee, Dylan, Igarashi, Heidi
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9770845/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.1961
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author Aldwin, Carolyn
Choun, Soyoung
Kurth, Maria
Lee, Hye Soo
Lee, Dylan
Igarashi, Heidi
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Choun, Soyoung
Kurth, Maria
Lee, Hye Soo
Lee, Dylan
Igarashi, Heidi
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description Despite their greater physiological vulnerability, community-residing older adults have shown surprising psychological resilience, at least at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a handful of reports suggest that older adults’ well-being has decreased after a few months, although others have suggested a recovery after a year (Schlomann et al., 2021). The purpose of this study was to examine change in change from baseline (April-May, 2020) to a 13- month follow-up (June, 2021). We analyzed data from 162 older adults with complete data at both time points. Mean age at baseline was 72, SD = 7.6, range = 51-96; 71% were female, 13% were minorities; 74% were married, 71% retired, and most (85%) had at least a BA. Linear modelling showed that there were only marginal increases in the number of problems across time (B = .25, p = .08), but their severity did not increase. There were no significant changes in depression, anxiety, loneliness or physical symptoms over this time period. The modest increase in problems may have been offset by an end to being in lockdown and an increase in social contacts which doubled over this time period, B = 1.65, p <.001). More troubling was that self-reported resilience decreased, B = -.92, p < .01), as did the ability to perceive positives in this situation, B = -2.46, p < .01), and self-reported cognitive problems increased, B=.67, p < .01). Thus, the results showed decidedly mixed effects, suggesting individual differences in long-term adaptation to COVID.
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spelling pubmed-97708452022-12-22 LONG-TERM POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AMONG OLDER ADULTS Aldwin, Carolyn Choun, Soyoung Kurth, Maria Lee, Hye Soo Lee, Dylan Igarashi, Heidi Innov Aging Abstracts Despite their greater physiological vulnerability, community-residing older adults have shown surprising psychological resilience, at least at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a handful of reports suggest that older adults’ well-being has decreased after a few months, although others have suggested a recovery after a year (Schlomann et al., 2021). The purpose of this study was to examine change in change from baseline (April-May, 2020) to a 13- month follow-up (June, 2021). We analyzed data from 162 older adults with complete data at both time points. Mean age at baseline was 72, SD = 7.6, range = 51-96; 71% were female, 13% were minorities; 74% were married, 71% retired, and most (85%) had at least a BA. Linear modelling showed that there were only marginal increases in the number of problems across time (B = .25, p = .08), but their severity did not increase. There were no significant changes in depression, anxiety, loneliness or physical symptoms over this time period. The modest increase in problems may have been offset by an end to being in lockdown and an increase in social contacts which doubled over this time period, B = 1.65, p <.001). More troubling was that self-reported resilience decreased, B = -.92, p < .01), as did the ability to perceive positives in this situation, B = -2.46, p < .01), and self-reported cognitive problems increased, B=.67, p < .01). Thus, the results showed decidedly mixed effects, suggesting individual differences in long-term adaptation to COVID. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9770845/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.1961 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kurth, Maria
Lee, Hye Soo
Lee, Dylan
Igarashi, Heidi
LONG-TERM POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AMONG OLDER ADULTS
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title_sort long-term positive and negative consequences of the covid-19 pandemic among older adults
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9770845/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.1961
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