Older people suffered increased anxiety and depression due to Covid, data will show 

Prof Rose Anne Kenny, director of Ageing Research at TCD. File photo.

New data to be published later this month will show that anxiety and depression levels among older people increased due to Covid-19 and the first lockdown.

Those behind the study also said there needed to be an increased focus on the health and wellbeing of the country's older population as another extended period of lockdown appears likely, with fresh calls for a minimum daily intake of vitamin D to increase responsiveness to any vaccine and guard against the worst effects of the coronavirus.