LONELINESS IN OLDER ADULTS LIVING IN PUERTO RICO DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: AN UNDEREXAMINED PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN
David Camacho, Matthew Morgan, Denise Burnette · 2023
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David Camacho, Matthew Morgan, and Denise Burnette explored loneliness among older adults in Puerto Rico during the pandemic in a 2023 study. Loneliness is a serious public health problem, yet it has been little studied in this population. Island elders faced strict isolation, family separation by migration, and strained services.
The team drew on a COVID-19 knowledge and practices study, interviewing elders by phone and in person through 2021. They mapped which social and health traits tracked with loneliness in a non-random sample. Even with that limit, the picture guides outreach: which elders to check on first when the next crisis cuts social contact. The authors call for routine attention to loneliness in island health planning.
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| CREATOR | David Camacho, Matthew Morgan, Denise Burnette |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |