“…Currently, there is a growing body of evidence examining the impact of the COVID-19 emergency on people's mental health, both in Italy (Cannito et al, 2020;Di Crosta et al, 2020;Fontanesi et al, 2020;Marazziti, Pozza, Di Giuseppe, & Conversano, 2020;Marchetti et al, 2020;Rossi et al, 2020), and worldwide (Huang & Zhao, 2020;Torales, O'Higgins, Castaldelli-Maia, & Ventriglio, 2020;Zhu et al, 2020). However, few studies explicitly focused on community-dwelling older adults, a population that has been identified as particularly vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection and its consequences (Verity et al, 2020).…”