Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Accompanying Mitigation Efforts on Older Adults

Peggy M Cawthon^{1

2}, Eric S Orwoll³, Kristine E Ensrud^{4

5}, Jane A Cauley⁶, Stephen B Kritchevsky⁷, Steven R Cummings⁸, Anne Newman⁶

Affiliations

¹ Research Institute, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.
³ Department of Medicine, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland.
⁴ Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minnesota.
⁵ Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
⁸ Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Peggy M Cawthon et al. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2020.

. 2020 Sep 16;75(9):e123-e125.

doi: 10.1093/gerona/glaa099.

Peggy M Cawthon^{1

2}, Eric S Orwoll³, Kristine E Ensrud^{4

5}, Jane A Cauley⁶, Stephen B Kritchevsky⁷, Steven R Cummings⁸, Anne Newman⁶

¹ Research Institute, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.
³ Department of Medicine, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland.
⁴ Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minnesota.
⁵ Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
⁸ Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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