Stress, resilience, and coping strategies in a sample of community-dwelling older adults during COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on perceived stress in older adults is critical to understanding how to best support elderly individuals navigating stressful situations, with the aim to lessen the impact of stressors on their brain health. Here, we collected measures on perceived stress, resilience, and behavioral coping strategies, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, in a cross-sectional sample of 141 community dwelling older adults (mean age = 74.4 ± 8.4, 59% females) who were part of two longitudinal observational studies in Massachusetts, U.S. Our results indicate that participants demonstrated moderate levels of stress related to COVID-19 and showed relatively high levels of resilience. Higher resilience was associated with greater use of adaptive coping behaviors a

SUBMITTER: Vannini P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8369528 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature