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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Daniel Keane

Covid pandemic much harder for socially active older people than their isolated counterparts, research reveals

Older people with an active social life had a sharper drop in their quality of life and a greater increase in loneliness during the Covid pandemic than people who were more isolated, a study has revealed.

Researchers at University College London examined survey responses from 4,636 people in England between 2018 and the end of 2020, when strict rules on socialising were in place.

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