Understanding Pandemic Experiences Among America's Elders.

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Louise Aronson is a professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California San Francisco, in San Francisco, California. She is the author of Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) and A History of the Present Illness: Stories (Bloomsbury USA, 2013). Ashwin Kotwal is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California San Francisco. All names of patients and residents are pseudonyms.

Published: December 2022

Older Americans' experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, including social isolation and loneliness, generosity, and resilience, must be studied and addressed.

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