Some nice UW coverage of Shengzhi Wang’s CSCW paper on how older adults’ social support networks (both support received and support given) shifted during the pandemic, and the role of technology in those shifts.
https://www.washington.edu/news/2024/05/15/covid-19-pandemic-older-adults-technology-use-smartphones/
You can see more in the paper at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3641027