The authors of this review both served on the National Academy of Science, Engineering,
and Medicine Committee that produced the report,“Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older …

Until the early 1980s, the only estimate of the prevalence of obsessive compulsive disorder
(OCD) in the general population was 0.05%. Data collected from the Epidemiology …

Social isolation and loneliness are serious yet underappreciated public health risks that
affect a significant portion of the older adult population. Approximately one-quarter of …

The outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in December 2019 has progressed to
the status of a global pandemic, with countries across the seven continents adversely …

Objective The COVID-19 outbreak and associated physical distancing measures altered the
social world for most older adults, but people who live alone may have been …

The goal of this article is to present a first list of ethical concerns that may arise from research
and personal use of virtual reality (VR) and related technology, and to offer concrete …

Objectives This article examines the influence of social networks on selected aspects of
mental health following the outbreak of the coronavirus. Method We linked data from a post …

Importance Emotional and behavioral symptoms in cognitively normal older people may be
direct manifestations of Alzheimer disease (AD) pathophysiology at the preclinical stage …

Psychological resilience of residents is an important but often neglected component of
community and urban resilience. This study explores what neighborhood environment …

This paper investigates whether lockdown policies aggravated mental health problems of
older populations (50 and over) in Europe during the first COVID-19 wave. Using data from …