One of the most affected populations has been seniors who faced significant declines in mental health stemming from social isolation and personal health concerns exacerbated by constraints to healthcare access. We seek to provide seniors with mental health services that they would otherwise not be able to receive due to barriers such as mental health worker shortages, long wait lists, high costs, and low technology literacy.

The adverse effects of the pandemic have disproportionately affected seniors. They have, and continue to experience, ongoing 1) higher mortality and higher risk for complications from COVID-19 infection, 2) disruptions to access to care, 3) increased isolation from lockdowns and restrictions to visitation coupled with poor technology literacy.

COVID-19 has made significant impacts onto the lives of every individual across the globe. With coordinated efforts of every level of government to limit infection rates, came the unintended but inevitable consequences of social isolation and financial impacts causing heightened anxiety and depression. These mental tolls of the pandemic have created unprecedented level of psychological distress and mental health declines throughout the community. Social isolation and loneliness increases older people’s health by causing anxiety, depression, cognitive dysfunction, heart disease, and mortality.”