With the pandemic state of emergency coming to a close, and with flu season now flu-and-COVID-19 season, experts are shifting their focus to what we can learn from the experience and apply to future ...

Social isolation among seniors can increase the chances of admission to nursing homes, and programs to increase their socialization could reduce healthcare spending, new research shows. Research into ...

The cost of isolating frail elders in nursing homes — many of which have been on a literal lockdown for months — is taking an even steeper toll than aging advocates feared. A new survey of 365 nursing ...

Social isolation and loneliness are prevalent in the population. There is robust evidence that social isolation and loneliness significantly increase risk and, conversely, that social connection ...

During the height of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, residents at Card Home for the Aged in Willimantic often gathered in the dining room to sing their favorite songs from the 1960s, like “Brown Eyed Girl ...