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Many Seniors with Depression Faring Well During Pandemic
depression, also exhibited resilience to the stress of physical distancing and isolation.The findings appear in peer-reviewed journal, The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.“We thought they would be more vulnerable to the stress of COVID because they are, by CDC definition, the most vulnerable population,” said Helen Lavretsky, M.D., a professor-in-residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA.Interestingly, seniors with depression appear to have better resiliency than many others because they have learned to live with their disorder.Lavretsky said, “what we learned is that older adults with depression can be resilient.
