{"id":177290,"date":"2021-09-16T10:29:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T14:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=177290"},"modified":"2021-09-17T13:41:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T17:41:02","slug":"podcast-covid-and-older-adults-resiliency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/09\/podcast-covid-and-older-adults-resiliency\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: COVID and Older Adults\u2018 Resiliency"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n  <p>A lot of the studies coming out show that older people are really handling this much better than thought, and that the we&#8217;re not seeing these increased rates of depression, anxiety and, frankly, suicidal thinking that we were really worried about when this pandemic hit. <cite> &#8212 Dr. David Steffens<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Between the isolation and concerns over the risk of severe illness, how has our way of life with COVID-19 been affecting older adults? <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/psychiatry\/about-us\/\">Dr. David Steffens<\/a>, geriatric psychiatrist and chair of the UConn Health Department of Psychiatry, and Tia Kozar, a second-year medical student who&#8217;s been studying mental health in older adults, discuss what they&#8217;ve observed, and it may surprise you.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"bnHBQuyMfn\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/covid-and-older-adults-resiliency\">COVID and Older Adults\u2018 Resiliency<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;COVID and Older Adults\u2018 Resiliency&#8221; &#8212; UConn Health\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/covid-and-older-adults-resiliency\/embed#?secret=heV82Qp0Er#?secret=bnHBQuyMfn\" data-secret=\"bnHBQuyMfn\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Health&#8217;s psychiatry chair and a medical student who&#8217;s studying how older adults are handling the pandemic with him share their observations, which may surprise you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":158112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2283,2231,2291,1868,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-177290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aging","category-health-well-being","category-psychiatry","category-meds","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 10:19:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178732,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177290\/revisions\/178732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/158112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177290"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=177290"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=177290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}