Older adults show greater resilience than youth during pandemic, defying expectations

What was said

"We at first thought CO is going to be terrible for older people, right? Because they're going to be socially isolated. They don't know how to use technology. But what we found, at least at the psychological level, we did some of this research, older adults were much more resilient than younger adults. The older adults were the ones who are like, Eh, I've lived through X, Y, and Z, wars, financial meltdowns, you know, changes in family structure, deaths of close people."

Research during COVID-19 revealed that older adults demonstrated superior psychological resilience compared to younger cohorts despite predictions of vulnerability. Their lifetime experience with adversity, loss, and disruption provided a cognitive and emotional buffer that younger people lacked during their first major collective crisis.