Loneliness and social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Int Psychogeriatr. 2020 Oct;32(10):1217-1220. doi: 10.1017/S1041610220000988. Epub 2020 May 26.

Authors

Tzung-Jeng Hwang¹, Kiran Rabheru², Carmelle Peisah³, William Reichman⁴, Manabu Ikeda⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
³ School of Psychiatry, University New South Wales; and Discipline Psychiatry, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.

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MeSH terms

Adaptation, Psychological
Aged
Aging* / physiology
Aging* / psychology
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Communicable Disease Control / methods
Coronavirus Infections* / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections* / psychology
Geriatric Psychiatry* / methods
Geriatric Psychiatry* / trends
Humans
Independent Living / psychology*
Loneliness / psychology*
Mental Health / trends
Needs Assessment
Noncommunicable Diseases* / epidemiology
Noncommunicable Diseases* / prevention & control
Noncommunicable Diseases* / psychology
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral* / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral* / psychology
Preventive Health Services / methods
Preventive Health Services / trends
Psychosocial Support Systems
SARS-CoV-2
Social Isolation / psychology*
Social Work* / methods
Social Work* / trends