A Third Of Older Adults Report Feeling Isolated In 2022, Less Than In 2020
The University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging (NPHA) assessed the level of social isolation among older adults before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The most recent survey was administered online and via telephone in January 2022 to 2,563 randomly selected adults aged 50 to 80 years. Questions included how often they felt lack of companionship, how often they felt isolated from others, and how often they interacted with others from outside their household. The researchers compared the …
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