KFF June 6, 2022
Meredith Freed, Juliette Cubanski, Tricia Neuman

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy physical and mental health toll on all ages, including older adults, heightening interest in strategies to improve access to mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services generally, and in Medicare. In April 2022 – more than two years into the pandemic – one in six adults 65 and older (16%) reported anxiety and depression, according to KFF analysis of the Household Pulse Survey, somewhat lower than the quarter of older adults (24%) who reported anxiety and depression in August 2020, when the country was in still the midst of widespread lockdowns in the early stage of the pandemic. (Both estimates would likely be higher among the entire Medicare population because Medicare...

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