COVID and Older Adults‘ Resiliency

<p>Perhaps the pandemic hasn't been as hard -- from a mental health perspective -- on older adults has we first feared it might? In fact, we have reason to believe older adults have coped as well as any other age group, or perhaps more so. <a href='https://health.uconn.edu/psychiatry/about-us/'>Dr. David Steffens</a>, UConn Health chair of psychiatry and geriatric psychiatrist, and second-year UConn medical student Tia Kozar have been studying this, and what they're seeing may surprise you.</p> <p>(Dr. David Steffens, Tia Kozar, Carolyn Pennington, Chris DeFrancesco, September 2021)</p> <p>UConn Health Department of Psychiatry <a href='https://health.uconn.edu/psychiatry/'>https://health.uconn.edu/psychiatry/</a></p> <p>UConn School of Medicine <a href='https://medicine.uconn.edu/'>https://medicine.uconn.edu/</a> </p>