After months under COVID-19 seniors are more lonely, less optimistic, new study says

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Victor Kuperman, Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen and team are working on creating a diagnostic tool to identify risk of loneliness in older adults during COVID-19, which they will share with healthcare professionals.

“He and his team performed a linguistic analysis of 3,408 written submissions from 959 seniors.

They opted for a linguistic analysis instead of a questionnaire because people generally don’t want to admit they are lonely, Kuperman said.

‘We thought we would ask older individuals to write a story about an event in the distant past, describe their day yesterday or speak to their future.'”

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