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Understanding Pandemic Experiences Among America's Elders
Louise Aronson1, Ashwin Kotwal
1Louise Aronson is a professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California San Francisco, in San Francisco, California. She is the author of Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) and A History of the Present Illness: Stories (Bloomsbury USA, 2013). Ashwin Kotwal (Ashwin.Kotwal@ucsf.edu) is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California San Francisco. All names of patients and residents are pseudonyms.
Abstract:
Older Americans' experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, including social isolation and loneliness, generosity, and resilience, must be studied and addressed.
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