Stress

More than half of frontline healthcare workers have been affected by subclinical symptoms of post-traumatic stress related to the pandemic, a regional investigation has found.

Music listening was linked to lower stress levels and improvements in mood during pandemic lockdowns. The researchers recommend music interventions to foster resilience during psychologically demanding...

The pandemic itself, including related stress, may be contributing to slow recoveries after COVID and non-COVID illnesses alike, investigators say.

Improvements were seen in resilience, stress, anxiety and burnout-exhaustion after the six-week program.

Exposure to social stress including trauma and discrimination is associated with signs of accelerated immune system aging, a first-time study has found.

With another possible COVID-19 wave on the way, and the Biden brain trust still eager to “wallop” the profession, long-term care people have plenty of reasons to continue aggressively seeking stress...

My right eyelid started twitching about six months ago. Although it’s not constant, it is a daily, unwelcome annoyance. It distracts me when I’m trying to sleep; it draws me out of the moment and into...

Seniors with poor physical and mental health have endured an outsized burden of pandemic stress, according to a National Poll on Healthy Aging update.

The last 18 months have been brutal for virtually everyone and every position within long-term care. Long hours, isolation from family and friends, implementing new polices and procedures due to COVID-19,...

Although feelings of optimism prevailed overall, older female survey respondents were more likely than their male peers to say that they were struggling in 2021 — from finances to mental health.