Depression deterioration of older adults during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe

Omar Paccagnella and Benedetta Pongiglione

Social Science & Medicine, 2022, vol. 299, issue C

Abstract: Determining who is particularly vulnerable to mental health deterioration during the COVID-19 pandemic is essential when designing and targeting interventions to mitigate the adverse psychological impacts of the outbreak. Older people have appeared to be less exposed to mental health deterioration compared with younger individuals, but most exposed to the risk of severe illness and death from the virus, as well as less equipped to use technologies for coping with lockdown measures.

Keywords: Ageing; COVID-19; Depression; Gender difference; Mental health; Older adults; Sadness; SHARE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114828

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