Pillar 3
Pandemic-resilient senior living
Need
Pandemics nearly always include a component of quarantine, which pose unique and significant threats to the health and quality of life of older adults. COVID-19, with its high mortality and morbidity toll in the older adult population, is even more of a challenge in that regard. The UArizona Center on Aging is investigating the impact of the pandemic on two critical issues for older adults: aging-in-place and the built environment.
Proposed Solution
The scope of our research addresses the immediate, intermediate, and latent effects of the pandemic to advance our understanding of the prospective concomitant, consequential, and collateral effects of SARS-CoV-2.
Statement of Work
UArizona researchers are working with the American Seniors Housing Association, and specifically with their members in Tucson, and the national developers Mather and Watermark corporations, with whom we have worked extensively in the past. Each has several senior housing developments in the Tucson area and we are surveying a targeted sample of up to 500 older adults representative of the diverse sample of older adults aging in the community.
