A study from Julia Sheffler, research faculty member in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, was published in the Gerontological Society of America’s journal The Gerontologist in August. Her study, The Interpersonal and Psychological Impacts of COVID-19 on Risk for Late-Life Suicide, discusses how current COVID-19 pandemic-related policies are likely to harm older adults disproportionately, especially as it relates to increased risk for suicide. The abstract reads, in part, “COVID-19 pandemic social distancing policies and ethical guidelines for COVID-19 treatment may exacerbate experiences of social isolation, perceived expendability, and exposure to suffering…”
Sheffler is the director of the Integrative Science for Health Aging research program at the FSU Center for Translational Behavioral Sciences
