What impact have lockdowns had on the mental health of older adults?

Countless limitations such as social distancing, quarantine, and lockdowns have been executed worldwide since 2019 because of the coronavirus outbreak. As an obvious consequence, most people got banned from many social connections, communications, and amusements, which caused many mental troubles among them. So, mental health became an unprecedentedly important matter for governments and society executive organizations. The statistics show that mental illnesses like anxiety, depression, and isolation enormously increased among these years. Older adults were the most fragile group during the Covid crisis. Higher risks of infection and mortality make social distancing more essential for older adults. It was expected to see unsatisfactory results in seniors’ mental health. But the results show the opposite!
In 2020, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) published research findings on different age ranges’ mental health, indicating better mental health situations in older adults than younger ones. According to the results, anxiety and depressive disorder are reported about 6 percent in 65-year-olds or more, uncommonly lower than the reported 35 percent in adults between 24 to 45 years old. Shocking, right?!
However, there’s a huge “but” in here! The results are related to older adults with the average rate of income and a medium level of lifestyle. Clearly, mental health states can be more complex in seniors living in nursing houses or suffering from physical or mental diseases.