Pandemic-related stress has implications on cognitive status, including decline due to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Yet, evidence suggests that COVID-19 has impacted culturally and linguistically diverse communities differently. The article examines the role of COVID-19 on coping and wellbeing in an international, multi-ethnic sample of older adults.
The findings suggest cross-cultural differences in the stress coping response of older adults during the pandemic, even after controlling for symptomatic history and other relevant covariates. Moreover, coping may be differentially related to positive and negative outcomes across cultural groups. These results support the need to consider cultural background when considering coping and wellbeing in older adults.
Article by Claudia Miranda de MICARE, Luis Medina, Idalid Franco, Daniela Thumala, Daisy Acosta, Cinthya Aguero, Sara Gloria Aguilar-Navarro, Ana Baena, Sonia Brucki, Julian Bustin, Lissette Duque, Ivonne Z. Jimenez Velazquez, Maria J. Marquine, Andrea Slachevsky, Marcio Soto-Añari, and Yakeel T. Quiroz.
