Surviving through solitude: A prospective national study of the impact of the early COVID-19 pandemic and a visiting ban on loneliness among nursing home residents in Sweden.
Per E GustafssonJulia SchrödersIngeborg NilssonMiguel San SebastiánPublished in: The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (2022)
The moderate but health-dependent increased risk of loneliness, and the lack of impact of the nation-wide visiting ban at nursing homes, suggest that this ostensibly vulnerable group of nursing home residents also show signs of resilience, at least during the early phase of the pandemic.