{"doi":"10.1093/geroni/igac059.117","title":"VIDEO CALLING REDUCES LONELINESS FOR HEARING IMPAIRED OLDER US ADULTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC","abstract":"Abstract Older adults with hearing impairment (HI) experience communication challenges that may result in increased loneliness exacerbated by social distancing during COVID-19. Video-calling may mitigate isolation-related loneliness. We addressed this hypothesis in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP), a longitudinal, nationally representative study of home-dwelling older US adults. Hearing ability was determined by interviewer-rating and loneliness/video-calling use by self-report. Fewer older adults (≥55 years) with HI (n=221) reported regular use of video-calling during the pandemic vs. those without HI (n=2337) (14% vs. 30%, p<0.001). Older adults with HI reported greater loneliness during COVID-19 (p=0.031), with video calls mitigating this relationship through a dose-dependent effect in adjusted analyses (interaction p=0.001). Video-calling decreases HI-related loneliness, despite potential barriers those with sensory impairment face using this technology. Promoting greater adoption of video-calling could be a strategy to protect against HI-related loneliness in aging.","journal":"Innovation in Aging","year":2022,"id":313815,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9552,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":326654,"name":"Kristen Wroblewski","orcid":"0000-0001-9297-0394","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":327770,"name":"Martha K. McClintock","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":295860,"name":"Louise C. Hawkley","orcid":"0000-0001-7876-8560","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":326655,"name":"Jayant M. Pinto","orcid":"0000-0003-2838-490X","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":292784,"name":"Amanda Zhang","orcid":"0000-0002-1639-8856","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:33:48.490749Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}